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diphtheria

acute contagious infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae; marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing

Synonyms:

• African lethargy,
• Asiatic cholera,
• Chagres fever,
• German measles,
• Haverhill fever,
• acute articular rheumatism,
• ague,
• alkali disease,
• amebiasis,
• amebic dysentery,
• anthrax,
• bacillary dysentery,
• bastard measles,
• black death,
• black fever,
• blackwater fever,
• breakbone fever,
• brucellosis,
• bubonic plague,
• cachectic fever,
• cerebral rheumatism,
• chicken pox,
• cholera,
• cowpox,
• dandy fever,
• deer fly fever,
• dengue,
• dengue fever,
• dumdum fever,
• dysentery,
• elephantiasis,
• encephalitis lethargica,
• enteric fever,
• erysipelas,
• famine fever,
• five-day fever,
• flu,
• frambesia,
• glandular fever,
• grippe,
• hansenosis,
• hepatitis,
• herpes,
• herpes simplex,
• herpes zoster,
• histoplasmosis,
• hookworm,
• hydrophobia,
• infantile paralysis,
• infectious mononucleosis,
• inflammatory rheumatism,
• influenza,
• jail fever,
• jungle rot,
• kala azar,
• kissing disease,
• lepra,
• leprosy,
• leptospirosis,
• loa loa,
• loaiasis,
• lockjaw,
• madness,
• malaria,
• malarial fever,
• marsh fever,
• measles,
• meningitis,
• milzbrand,
• mumps,
• ornithosis,
• osteomyelitis,
• paratyphoid fever,
• parotitis,
• parrot fever,
• pertussis,
• pneumonia,
• polio,
• poliomyelitis,
• polyarthritis rheumatism,
• ponos,
• psittacosis,
• rabbit fever,
• rabies,
• rat-bite fever,
• relapsing fever,
• rheumatic fever,
• rickettsialpox,
• ringworm,
• rubella,
• rubeola,
• scarlatina,
• scarlet fever,
• schistosomiasis,
• septic sore throat,
• shingles,
• sleeping sickness,
• sleepy sickness,
• smallpox,
• snail fever,
• splenic fever,
• spotted fever,
• strep throat,
• swamp fever,
• tetanus,
• thrush,
• tinea,
• trench fever,
• trench mouth,
• tuberculosis,
• tularemia,
• typhoid,
• typhoid fever,
• typhus,
• typhus fever,
• undulant fever,
• vaccinia,
• varicella,
• variola,
• venereal disease,
• viral dysentery,
• whooping cough,
• yaws,
• yellow fever,
• yellow jack,
• zona,
• zoster