wasting fever

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• fever — Synonyms and related words: abscess, agitation, ague, amok, anemia, animal heat, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attack, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, blood heat, bluster, bobbery, body heat, boil, boiling,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• wasting syndrome — the wasting condition seen in persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), consisting of weight loss, muscle wasting, and often fever, due to a variety of causes including nutritional deficiencies and chronic diarrhea. Called… …   Medical dictionary

• wasting — Synonyms and related words: Sanforizing, abscess, aging, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation, backache, baneful, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic …   Moby Thesaurus

• hectic fever — noun (old) Fever occurring in connection with certain wasting diseases of long duration, esp tuberculosis, typically producing a flush in the cheeks • • • Main Entry: ↑hectic * * * hectic fever, a fever often accompanying tuberculosis or other… …   Useful english dictionary

• Sahaptin people — The Sahaptin people are a Native American people that inhabited territory along the Columbia River. The Nez Perce tribe is one of the major Sahaptin groups.TerritoryThe prominent Sahaptin tribe formerly held a considerable territory in western… …   Wikipedia

• Sahaptin Indians — • A prominent tribe formerly holding a considerable territory in Western Idaho and adjacent portions of Oregon and Washington Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sahaptin Indians     Sahaptin Indians …   Catholic encyclopedia

• syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

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• muscle disease — ▪ pathology Introduction       any of the diseases and disorders that affect the human muscle system (muscle system, human). Diseases and disorders that result from direct abnormalities of the muscles are called primary muscle diseases; those… …   Universalium

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