List of deprecated terms for diseases

The following is a list of deprecated terms for diseases.


Obsolete term	Preferred term	Reference	Notes
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.
Muerto Canyon disease	Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome	[14]	Named for the area where it was initially identified. "Four Corners disease" is likewise deprecated.
Norwalk virus	Norovirus	[15]	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	[16]	From the French term esquinancie.
Saint Vitus Dance	Sydenham's chorea	[17]	Named for Saint Vitus the Martyr
Spanish fever	Influenza	[18]	Used in reference to the 1918 flu pandemic.
Squinsy	Peritonsillar abscess	[16]	From the French term esquinancie.
Staggers	Decompression sickness	[2]	Referred to the associated neurological issues of decompression illness.
Undulant fever	Brucellosis	[19]	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	[20]	Refers to people who tended to contract the disease (from the sheep)
Wuhan Virus	COVID-19	[21]	Former name for the COVID-19 outbreak which refers to the virus' location of origin.

References

Breitenfeld, T; Jurasic, MJ; Breitenfeld, D (September 2014). "Hippocrates: the forefather of neurology". Neurological Sciences. 35 (9): 1349–52. doi:10.1007/s10072-014-1869-3. PMID 25027011. S2CID 2002986.
Francis, T James R; Mitchell, Simon J (2003). "10.6: Manifestations of Decompression Disorders". In Brubakk, Alf O; Neuman, Tom S (eds.). Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving (5th Revised ed.). United States: Saunders Ltd. pp. 578–99. ISBN 0-7020-2571-2. OCLC 51607923.
Rush, Benjamin (1805). Medical Inquiries and Observations. Vol. 1. J. Conrad & Company. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
Halstead, Scott B. (2009-03-31). Dengue. Imperial College Press. ISBN 9781848162297. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
Jules Dubos, René; Jean Dubos (1952). The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813512242.
Stitt, Edward Rhodes; Richard Pearson Strong (1944). Stitt's Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of tropical diseases. Vol. 2. Blakiston. p. 1018.
Kormano, Martti; Ilmari Lindgren; Inkeri Helander (1999-01-01). Radiological Findings in Skin Diseases and Related Conditions. Thieme. p. 106. ISBN 9783131161215.
Bivins, Roberta (2007). ""The English Disease" or "Asian Rickets"?". Bull Hist Med. 81 (3): 533–68. doi:10.1353/bhm.2007.0062. PMC 2630160. PMID 17873451.
Arrizabalaga, Jon; John Henderson; Roger Kenneth French (1997-02-27). The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300069340. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
Dick, Henry (1858). Gleet: its pathology and treatment. Baillière.
Potter, CW (2001). "A history of influenza". Journal of Applied Microbiology. 91 (4): 572–579. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2672.2001.01492.x. PMID 11576290.
Murray, JF; Rieder, HL; Finley-Croswhite, A (June 2016). "The King's Evil and the Royal Touch: the medical history of scrofula". The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 20 (6): 713–6. doi:10.5588/ijtld.16.0229. PMID 27155172.
Wells CL, Wilkins TD (1996). "Clostridia: Sporeforming Anaerobic Bacilli". In Baron S, et al. (eds.). Baron's Medical Microbiology. Univ of Texas Medical Branch. ISBN 0-9631172-1-1. PMID 21413315. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
"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.
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.
Smith, P (2009). "Swine Flu". Croatian Medical Journal. 50 (4): 412–5. doi:10.3325/cmj.2009.50.412. PMC 2728380. PMID 19673043.
"PubMed Health". Retrieved 6 May 2012.
Sidel, V; Cohen, HW; Gould, RM (May 2002). "From woolsorters to mail sorters: anthrax past, present, and future". American Journal of Public Health. 92 (5): 705–6. doi:10.2105/ajph.92.5.705. PMC 1447147. PMID 11988429.
Vazquez, Marietta. "Calling COVID-19 the "Wuhan Virus" or "China Virus" is inaccurate and xenophobic". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved 16 February 2023.

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[1] Breitenfeld, T; Jurasic, MJ; Breitenfeld, D (September 2014). "Hippocrates: the forefather of neurology". Neurological Sciences. 35 (9): 1349–52. doi:10.1007/s10072-014-1869-3. PMID 25027011. S2CID 2002986.

[Francis-2] Francis, T James R; Mitchell, Simon J (2003). "10.6: Manifestations of Decompression Disorders". In Brubakk, Alf O; Neuman, Tom S (eds.). Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving (5th Revised ed.). United States: Saunders Ltd. pp. 578–99. ISBN 0-7020-2571-2. OCLC 51607923.

[Rush-3] Rush, Benjamin (1805). Medical Inquiries and Observations. Vol. 1. J. Conrad & Company. Retrieved 2012-05-20.

[Halstead-4] Halstead, Scott B. (2009-03-31). Dengue. Imperial College Press. ISBN 9781848162297. Retrieved 2012-05-20.

[tuberc-5] Jules Dubos, René; Jean Dubos (1952). The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813512242.

[6] Stitt, Edward Rhodes; Richard Pearson Strong (1944). Stitt's Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of tropical diseases. Vol. 2. Blakiston. p. 1018.

[7] Kormano, Martti; Ilmari Lindgren; Inkeri Helander (1999-01-01). Radiological Findings in Skin Diseases and Related Conditions. Thieme. p. 106. ISBN 9783131161215.

[8] Bivins, Roberta (2007). ""The English Disease" or "Asian Rickets"?". Bull Hist Med. 81 (3): 533–68. doi:10.1353/bhm.2007.0062. PMC 2630160. PMID 17873451.

[syphilis-9] Arrizabalaga, Jon; John Henderson; Roger Kenneth French (1997-02-27). The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300069340. Retrieved 2012-05-20.

[10] Dick, Henry (1858). Gleet: its pathology and treatment. Baillière.

[11] Potter, CW (2001). "A history of influenza". Journal of Applied Microbiology. 91 (4): 572–579. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2672.2001.01492.x. PMID 11576290.

[12] Murray, JF; Rieder, HL; Finley-Croswhite, A (June 2016). "The King's Evil and the Royal Touch: the medical history of scrofula". The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 20 (6): 713–6. doi:10.5588/ijtld.16.0229. PMID 27155172.

[13] Wells CL, Wilkins TD (1996). "Clostridia: Sporeforming Anaerobic Bacilli". In Baron S, et al. (eds.). Baron's Medical Microbiology. Univ of Texas Medical Branch. ISBN 0-9631172-1-1. PMID 21413315. Retrieved 2012-05-20.

[14] "Navajos Decry Muerto Canyon Hantavirus Site". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. 24 April 1994. Retrieved 16 February 2023.

[15] "Noroviruses - Fact Sheet". Public Health Agency of Canada. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.

[quinsy-16] Richard Gleason Greene (1890). The International cyclopedia: a compendium of human knowledge, Volume 12. Dodd, Mead. pp. 355–6. Retrieved 2012-05-20.

[17] "NINDS Sydenham Chorea Information Page". February 14, 2007. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Retrieved May 8, 2012.

[18] Smith, P (2009). "Swine Flu". Croatian Medical Journal. 50 (4): 412–5. doi:10.3325/cmj.2009.50.412. PMC 2728380. PMID 19673043.

[19] "PubMed Health". Retrieved 6 May 2012.

[20] Sidel, V; Cohen, HW; Gould, RM (May 2002). "From woolsorters to mail sorters: anthrax past, present, and future". American Journal of Public Health. 92 (5): 705–6. doi:10.2105/ajph.92.5.705. PMC 1447147. PMID 11988429.

[21] Vazquez, Marietta. "Calling COVID-19 the "Wuhan Virus" or "China Virus" is inaccurate and xenophobic". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved 16 February 2023.