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Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.

Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.

sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease. Tooke.

Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

An epidemic disease.

Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.

An epidemic disease. Dunglison.

The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison.

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm. Dunglison.

Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.

An epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors. This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment. Southey.

Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.

A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.