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(Encyclopedia) sickle cell disease or sickle cell anemia, inherited disorder of the blood in which the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin pigment in erythrocytes (red blood cells) is abnormal. This “hemoglobin-S” crysta...

(Encyclopedia) Marburg virus disease, formerly known as Marburg virus hemorrhagic fever, disease caused by infection with a Marburg virus, a filovirus that belongs to a family (Filoviridae) of RNA viruses that also ...

(Encyclopedia) foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease, highly contagious disease almost exclusive to cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and other cloven-hoofed animals. It is caused by a virus, specifically an a...

(Encyclopedia) autoimmune disease, any of a number of abnormal conditions caused when the body produces antibodies to its own substances. In rheumatoid arthritis, a group of antibody molecules called collectively RF...

(Encyclopedia) hoof-and-mouth disease: see foot-and-mouth disease. ...

(Encyclopedia) mad cow disease: see prion.

(Encyclopedia) chronic wasting disease: see prion. ...

(Encyclopedia) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: see prion. ...

(Encyclopedia) motor neuron disease: see amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ...

(Encyclopedia) hyaline membrane disease: see infant respiratory distress syndrome. ...