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Ache
verb · 78% connection
To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Acne
noun · 78% connection
an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Affecting
adjective · 78% connection
Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Atrophic arthritis
noun · 78% connection
a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Beriberi
noun · 78% connection
An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Bright's disease
unknown · 78% connection
An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Chersonese
noun · 78% connection
A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Ch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Chilblain
noun · 78% connection
A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Cholera
noun · 78% connection
One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Contagiousness
noun · 78% connection
The state or condition of being contagious, easily transmitted to others.; "Without factoring in the contagiousness of a disease, we w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Diphtheria
noun · 78% connection
A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Disseminated lupus erythematosus
noun · 78% connection
an inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Eczema
noun · 78% connection
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the disc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Enzootic
adjective · 78% connection
Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Epidemic
adjective · 78% connection
(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a popu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Epidemical
adjective · 78% connection
Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Forest
noun · 78% connection
An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland whi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
Glanders
noun · 78% connection
A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contagious, inflammatory, disease, genitourinary, tract.
