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Scrofula
A constitutional disease generally hereditary especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands particularly those of the neck and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin mucous membrane bones joints and other parts and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character and may develop into general or local tuberculosis consumption...
Barbiers
A variety of paralysis peculiar to India and the Malabar coast considered by many to be the same as beriberi in a chronic form...
black lung
the popular name for a form of the chronic lung disease pneumoconiosis which is observed among coal miners and is caused by the inhalation of coal dust It is thus named because of the black appearance of the lungs pneumomelanosis of those affected with the disease See also the related condition anthracosis...
Bleareye
A disease of the eyelids consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter...
Bronchitis
Inflammation acute or chronic of the bronchial tubes or any part of them...
Chronic
Relating to time according to time...
Dipsomania
A morbid an uncontrollable craving often periodic for drink esp for alcoholic liquors also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism...
Encephalopathy
Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain as lead encephalopathy the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning...
hypertension
abnormally high blood pressure especially the chronic condition associated with persistent high blood pressure...
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