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A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation.

Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

An access of disease; a fit of sickness.

To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love. Shak.

by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.

The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

thoscope (mediate ~), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.

Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

issection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.

ent to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.

A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.

active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.

The treatment of disease by baths.

A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.