| yellow fever |
A contagious infectious disease caused by a virus and spread by mosquitoes that pick up the disease from monkeys. Found mainly in Africa and Latin America, its symptoms include jaundice, muscle pain, high fever, bleeding, and sometimes death.
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| Y-chromosome |
Sex determining chromosome. Males have one X and one Y chromosome.
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| yoga |
(Sans.) A school of philosophy founded by Patanjali, but which existed as a distinct teaching and system of life long before that sage. ...
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| yaws |
An infectious nonvenereal disease caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue. Mainly found in humid, equatorial regions. Symptoms include febrile disturbances, rheumatism, eruption of tubercles with a caseous crust on hands, feet, face and external genitals. SYN: bouba; frambesia; tropica; parangi; pian.
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| yellow fever |
An acute infectious disease characterized by jaundice, epigastric tenderness, vomiting, hemorrhages, and a febrile course consisting of two paroxysms. There are two forms of yellow fever: urban, in which the transmission cycle is mosquito; and sylvan, in which the reservoir is wild primates. Also, in sylvan yellow fever, the mosquito will remain infected for life. Except for a few cases in Trinidad in 1954, urban yellow fever has not been reported in North or South America since 1942. ...
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