Dancing plague A form of convulsions, which has appeared, at various times, epidemically under the form of St Vitus's dance, St John's dance, Tarantism, Hysteria, Tigretier (in Abyssinia), and disease...
Tabes A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline --Dunglison
Divers' disease or the bends or aerobullosis or caisson disease describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurisation.
A drug-induced depression of consciousness during which patients cannot be easily aroused but respond purposefully following repeated or painful stimulation
The breakdown of the cartilage lining the bones in joints, usually weight-bearing joints (such as the knee); causes stiffness and pain (also called osteoarthritis)
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