A presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects the spine, a kind of tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints.

leptospirosis

(medicine) The manifestation as rashes of an infection by erythrovirus.

US spelling of coeliac disease

(medicine) A form of trypanosomiasis prevalent in South America, caused by the parasitic trypanosome T. cruzi. It is transmitted to many mammals such as humans through insect bites, mainly by kissing bugs. Symptoms include fever, oedema, cardiomyopathy, and enlargement of the spleen and lymph nodes. It can be fatal.

(medicine) Any of several contagious diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, contracted through sexual intercourse.

(neurology, medicine) A disorder involving loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes; senile dementia of Alzheimer's type.

(pathology, nautical) The painful condition in which bubbles of nitrogen form in body tissues after a person makes too-rapid a transition from high atmospheric pressure to lower atmospheric pressure.

A disease characterized by low blood flow to the fingers, toes, and/or ears.

(medicine) A painful disease of the wrist that results from loss of circulation to the lunate bone.