| DCS | decompression sickness; dense canalicular system; diffuse cortical sclerosis; dorsal column stimulat... |
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| DGS | decompression sickness; developmental Gerstmann syndrome; diabetic glomerulosclerosis; Di George seq... |
| HSRS | Health-Sickness Rating Scale |
| MSS | Marshall-Smith syndrome; massage; Medical Superintendents' Society; Medicare Statistical System; men... |
| S&A | sickness and accident [insurance]; sugar and acetone |
| caisson sickness | Disease caused by rapid decompression. So named since it appeared in workers building tunnels or supports for bridges working in enclosed units under high atmospheric pressure to keep out surrounding water, called caissons. See: decompression sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| radiation sickness | A systemic condition caused by substantial whole-body irradiation, seen after nuclear explosions or accidents, rarely after radiotherapy. Manifestations depend on dose, ranging from anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and mild leukopenia, to thrombocytopenia with haemorrhage, severe leukopenia with infection, anaemia, central nervous system damage, and death. Synonym: radiation poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| railroad sickness | An acute disease seen in cattle and sheep during and shortly after shipping; it appears most often in females in advanced pregnancy and is believed to be precipitated by stress, lack of food and water, and perhaps heat. Synonym: railroad disease, railroad sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| car sickness | A form of motion sickness caused by riding on a train or in an automobile or bus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cave sickness | Histoplasmosis acquired by inhalation of organism Histoplasma capulatum in caves (spelunking) or mine shafts containing bird roosts or bats, prime conditions for growth of the organisms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green sickness | Yellowing or bleaching of plant tissues due to the loss of chlorophyll or failure of chlorophyll synthesis. Symptomatic of many plant diseases, also of deficiencies of light or certain nutrients. (18 Nov 1997) |
| green tobacco sickness | An illness of tobacco harvest workers characterised by headache, dizziness and vomiting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chronic mountain sickness | Loss of high altitude tolerance after prolonged exposure (e.g., by residence), characterised by extreme polycythemia, exaggerated hypoxaemia, and reduced mental and physical capacity; relieved by descent. Synonym: altitude erythraemia, chronic soroche, Monge's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milk sickness | An acute, often fatal disease caused by the ingestion of milk, milk products, or the flesh of cattle or sheep which have a disease known as trembles. It is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, constipation, and sometimes muscular tremors. It is caused by poisoning by white snakeroot (eupatorium rugosum) and the rayless goldenrod (haplopappus heterophyllus). (12 Dec 1998) |
| Monday morning sickness | azoturia of horses |
| morning sickness | <obstetrics> Recurrent nausea and vomiting often seen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and more pronounced in the mornings. Synonym: hyperemesis gravidarum. (27 Sep 1997) |
| motion sickness | <neurology> A disturbance of the inner ear that is caused by repeated motion (for example sea sickness, car sickness). Common symptoms include nausea, vomiting and vertigo. (27 Sep 1997) |
| mountain sickness | A condition that results from prolonged exposure to high altitude. Symptoms include a continuous dry cough, shortness of breath, poor exercise tolerance, dizziness, headache, sleep difficulty, anorexia, confusion, fatigue and a rapid pulse. Treatment includes the immediate movement to a lower altitude. Prophylaxis has been accomplished successfully with the use of acetazolamide (Diamox). (27 Sep 1997) |
| high altitude sickness | A condition that results from the exposure to lower barometric pressure (lower oxygen concentration). Synonym: acute mountain sickness. (27 Sep 1997) |
| serum sickness | A hypersensitivity response (type III) to the injection of large amounts of antigen, as might happen when large amounts of antiserum are given in a passive immunisation. The effects are caused by the presence of soluble immune complexes in the tissues. (18 Nov 1997) |