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A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another. Dunglison.

Containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as, miasmatic diseases.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

ood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anæmia.

rly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

ry minute plant, one of certain unicellular algæ, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.

supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.

e act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.

growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

f leguminous and, usually, twining plants. -- Milk sickness (Med.), a peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontr…

A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in…

esp., to supply consolation or remedies. Matt. xxv. 44. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased Shak.

ion of this manner of writing for the common manner is a symptom of some kinds of nervous disease.

A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.

A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals. Dunglison.

A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.

Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.