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4 days ago · noun. : active or inactive disease of the heart that results from rheumatic fever and that is characterized by reduced functional capacity of the heart caused by inflammatory changes in the myocardium or scarring of the valves.
2 days ago · Sepsisis a potentially life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infectioncauses injury to its own tissues and organs. [4][7] This initial stage of sepsis is followed by suppression of the immune system.[8] Common signs and symptoms include fever, increased heart rate, increased breathing rate, and confusion.[1]
4 days ago · gold fever: 1 n greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush Type of: fever intense nervous anticipation
5 days ago · The treatment of watery diarrhea is focused on resolving the root cause, often with medications that ease the severity of diarrhea. Imodium (loperamide) is one anti-diarrheal drug available over the counter. If the illness is caused by bacteria, antibiotics can be used to treat the infection.
5 days ago · Delirium (formerly acute confusional state, an ambiguous term which is now discouraged) [1] is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, effects of a psychoactive substance, or multiple causes, which usually develops over the course of hours to days.
4 days ago · A southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus) is a vector that transmits the pathogens that cause West Nile fever and avian malaria among others. For infecting organisms to survive and repeat the infection cycle in other hosts, they (or their progeny) must leave an existing reservoir and cause infection elsewhere.
3 days ago · immune system, the complex group of defense responses found in humans and other advanced vertebrates that helps repel disease-causing organisms (pathogens). Immunity from disease is actually conferred by two cooperative defense systems, called nonspecific, innate immunity and specific, acquired immunity. Nonspecific protective mechanisms repel ...
