List of deprecated terms for diseases
The following is a list of deprecated terms for diseases.
Obsolete term | Preferred term | Reference | Notes |
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Apoplexy | Stroke | [1] | Also a general term for internal bleeding in a specific organ. |
Bends | Decompression sickness | [2] | Referred to the associated musculoskeletal issues of decompression illness. |
Bilious remitting fever | Dengue fever | [3] | Used in reference to a 1780 outbreak in Philadelphia. |
Break-bone fever | Dengue fever | [3] | Used in reference to a 1780 outbreak in Philadelphia. |
Break-heart fever | Dengue fever | [4] | |
Chokes | Decompression sickness | [2] | Referred to the associated breathing issues of decompression illness. |
Consumption | Tuberculosis | [5] | So-called due to the wasting that occurs in the late stages of infection. |
Dandy fever | Dengue fever | [4] | A reference to the mincing walk adopted by those affected. |
Dropsy | Edema | [6] | |
Dum-dum fever | Leishmaniasis | [7] | The term is derived from the city of Dum Dum, the site of an outbreak. |
English disease | Rickets | [8] | So named due to its prevalence in English slums. |
French disease | Syphilis | [9] | Used as an ethnic slur against the French. |
Front-street fever | Dengue fever | [3] | Used in reference to a 1780 outbreak in Philadelphia. |
Gleet | Gonorrhea | [10] | Usually refers to gonorrhea that is in semi-remission. |
Great pox | Syphilis | [9] | Used as a term of comparison to smallpox. |
Grippe | Influenza | [11] | From the French. |
King's evil | Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis |
[12] | From the belief that the disease could be cured by a royal touch. |
Lockjaw | Trismus | [13] | The term is sometimes used as a synonym for tetanus, which usually first manifests as trismus. |
Monkeypox | Mpox | [14] | |
Muerto Canyon disease | Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | [15] | Named for the area where it was initially identified. "Four Corners disease" is likewise deprecated. |
Norwalk virus | Norovirus | [16] | Named after the town of Norwalk, Ohio, where the disease was first distinctly identified. |
Phthisis | Tuberculosis | [5] | From the Greek word for consumption. |
Quinsy | Peritonsillar abscess | [17] | From the French term esquinancie. |
Saint Vitus Dance | Sydenham's chorea | [18] | Named for Saint Vitus the Martyr
|
Spanish fever | Influenza | [19] | Used in reference to the 1918 flu pandemic .
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Squinsy | Peritonsillar abscess | [17] | From the French term esquinancie. |
Staggers | Decompression sickness | [2] | Referred to the associated neurological issues of decompression illness. |
Undulant fever | Brucellosis | [20] | The name is a reference to the rising and falling of the patient's temperature. |
White Plague | Tuberculosis | [5] | The name refers to the pallor of patients with "consumption" (severe tuberculosis). |
Woolsorter's disease | Anthrax | [21] | Refers to people who tended to contract the disease (from the sheep) |
Wuhan Virus | COVID-19 | [22] | Former name for the COVID-19 outbreak which refers to the virus' location of origin. |
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- ^ "WHO recommends new name for monkeypox disease" (Press release). World Health Organization (WHO). 28 November 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- ^ "Navajos Decry Muerto Canyon Hantavirus Site". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. 24 April 1994. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Noroviruses - Fact Sheet". Public Health Agency of Canada. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ^ a b Richard Gleason Greene (1890). The International cyclopedia: a compendium of human knowledge, Volume 12. Dodd, Mead. pp. 355–6. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
- ^ "NINDS Sydenham Chorea Information Page". February 14, 2007. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
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