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The emotional influence of chronic illness also has an effect on the intellectual and educational development of the individual. [53] For example, people living with type 1 diabetes endure a lifetime of monotonous and rigorous health care management usually involving daily blood glucose monitoring, insulin injections, and constant self-care.
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) Tick-borne encephalitis: Yes: usually Trichophyton species Tinea barbae (barber's itch) No usually Trichophyton tonsurans: Tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp) No usually Trichophyton species Tinea corporis (ringworm of the body) No usually Epidermophyton floccosum, Trichophyton rubrum, and Trichophyton ...
Referred to the associated neurological issues of decompression illness. Undulant fever: Brucellosis [21] The name is a reference to the rising and falling of the patient's temperature. White Plague: Tuberculosis [5] The name refers to the pallor of patients with "consumption" (severe tuberculosis). Woolsorter's disease: Anthrax [22]
E. coli O157:H7 from Taco Bell in South Plainfield, New Jersey and Long Island. 39 people in central New Jersey and on Long Island were sickened and suffered from hemolytic uremic syndrome. [55] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at first believed the E. coli O157:H7 to be in the green onions. The FDA on December 13, 2006, said it could ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...