| epidemic stomatitis | Contagious mouth infection, usually due to Group A Coxsackievirus. See: herpangina. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| epidemic tetany | An acute epidemic form of tetany, of several weeks' duration, occurring chiefly in winter. Synonym: epidemic tetany. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epidemic transient diaphragmatic spasm | An acute infectious disease usually occurring in epidemic form, characterised by paroxysms of pain, usually in the chest, and associated with strains of Enterovirus coxsackievirus type B. Synonym: benign dry pleurisy, Bornholm disease, Daae's disease, devil's grip, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic benign dry pleurisy, epidemic diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic myositis, myositis epidemica acuta, epidemic transient diaphragmatic spasm, Sylvest's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epidemic tremor | <veterinary> A disease of very young chicks caused by a picornavirus and characterised by tremor, ataxia, somnolence, and finally death. Synonym: epidemic tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epidemic typhus | <infectious disease> A severe acute disease with prolonged high fever up to 40 |
| epidemic vertigo | A paroxysmal attack of severe vertigo, not accompanied by deafness or tinnitus, which affects young to middle-aged adults, often following a non-specific upper respiratory infection; due to unilateral vestibular dysfunction. Synonym: endemic paralytic vertigo, epidemic vertigo, Gerlier's disease, kubisagari, kubisagaru, paralyzing vertigo. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epidemic vomiting | Virus caused by Norwalk virus, a 27 nm RNA virus in the family Caliciviridae frequently occurring in a group of people (e.g., in a school or small community) suddenly and without prodromal illness or malaise, is intense while it lasts, but ceases abruptly after a few hours or a day or so; symptoms are headache, abdominal pain, giddiness, and diarrhoea in most of the cases, and extreme prostration in about 75%. Synonym: epidemic nausea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epidemical | 1. <epidemiology> Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic. 2. Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil. "It was the epidemical sin of the nation." (Bp. Burnet) Origin: L. Epidemus, Gr, among the people, epidemic; in + people: cf. F. Epidemique. Cf. Demagogue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| epidemicity | The state of prevailing disease in epidemic form. (05 Mar 2000) |
| epidemiography | <medicine> A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases. Origin: Epidemy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| epidemiologic factors | Events, characteristics, or other definable entities that have the potential to bring about a change in a health condition or other defined outcome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| epidemiologic measurements | <epidemiology> Statistical calculations on the occurrence of disease or other health-related conditions in defined populations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| epidemiologic research design | The form and structure of analytic studies in epidemiologic and clinical research. (12 Dec 1998) |
| epidemiologic studies | Studies designed to examine associations, commonly, hypothesised causal relations. They are usually concerned with identifying or measuring the effects of risk factors or exposures. The common types of analytic study are case-control studies, cohort studies, and cross-sectional studies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| epidemiologic study characteristics | Types and formulations of studies used in epidemiological and clinical research. (12 Dec 1998) |