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The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

Termination a disease; indicating the end of a disease.

Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

thout actual contact. The existence of such a force, and its potentiality for the cure of disease, were asserted by Mesmer in

The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.

A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.

Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. Buckminster.

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

he salivary glands of the mosquito, may be introduced into a new host. The attacks of the disease coincide with the dissolution of the corpuscles and liberation of the spores and products of growth of the parasites into the blood plasma. Several species of the parasite are distinguished, as P. vivax, producing tertian…

al issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound…

Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward.

A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence. Milton. Marasmus senilis Etym: [L.], progressive atrophy of the aged.

eats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.

A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.

Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.

Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

a rule having the spores in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose.

A disease; black jaundice. See Mel.

A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or Addison's disease. -- Me*las"mic, a.