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Definition: Lyme Disease |
Lyme DiseaseNoun1. An acute inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling and fever; caused by bacteria carried by the bite of a deer tick. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | An infectious disease caused by a spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted chiefly by Ixodes dammini and pacificus ticks in the United States and Ixodes ricinis in Europe. It is a disease with early and late cutaneous manifestations plus involvement of the nervous system, heart, eye, and joints in variable combinations. The disease was formerly known as Lyme arthritis and first discovered at Old Lyme, Connecticut. (references) |
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The most reliable method of diagnosing Lyme disease is a clinical exam supported by laboratory tests. In cases where the "bull's eye" rash is present in conjunction with a fever or the patient saw the tick, treatment can begin without any further tests.
The laboratory tests available are the Western blot and ELISA, but neither is a reliable indicator: test results vary between labs and within the same lab, false positives and false negatives are common and the two tests are not always in agreement. In cases of chronic Lyme disease, diagnosis must take all factors into account (tick bite exposure, symptom history, etc..) and will continue to be problematic until a more reliable test is developed.
Lyme disease infection can be prevented by avoiding heavily wooded areas, where ticks may live in the moist, thick underbrush. If such places cannot be avoided, prevention can also be achieved by:
Symptoms
Acute (early) symptoms
The incubation period from infection to the onset of symptoms is usually 1-2 weeks, but can be as long as one month. However, it is possible for an infected person to display no symptoms, or display only one or two symptoms, which can make diagnosis difficult. Chronic (late) symptoms
The late symptoms of Lyme disease can appear months to years from infection. Left untreated, Lyme disease can cause chronic disability, but is rarely fatal. Chronic cases have been known to linger for 20 years before a definitive diagnosis.Diagnosis
Prevention
In addition, since the tick usually must be attached to the skin for at least 36 hours before the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria is transmitted, removing the tick immediately when found may prevent infection.
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Synonym: Lyme DiseaseSynonym: Lyme arthritis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lyme Disease |
| English words defined with "Lyme disease": black-legged tick, Borrelia burgdorferi ♦ dusky-footed woodrat ♦ Ixodes dentatus, Ixodes neotomae, Ixodes pacificus, Ixodes persulcatus, Ixodes ricinus, Ixodes scapularis, Ixodes spinipalpis ♦ Lime disease spirochete ♦ Neotoma fuscipes ♦ sheeptick ♦ western black-legged tick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Lyme disease": Lyme Disease Vaccines ♦ spirochetes. (references) |
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Screenplays | Lyme disease is spread by small parasites called `ticks'. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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 | Bar graph showing numbers of cases of Lyme disease in the United States in the years 1986-1995. Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology showing Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in Lyme disease. Dieterle silver stain. Credit: CDC. |
 | Female Ixodes scapularis tick. Lyme Disease vector, parasite. Also known as Ixodes dammini. Credit: CDC. |  | Ixodes scapularis, tick vector for Lyme disease. Also known as Ixodes dammini. Credit: CDC. |
 | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A deer tick - Ixodes dammini - is quite abundant on Prudence Island. These small creatures can be quite dangerous to humans as they are carriers of Lyme disease. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Lyme Disease. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | A. Lyme disease is rarely, if ever, fatal. (references) | |
The NINDS supports research on Lyme disease. (references) | ||
A. By the bite of ticks infected with Lyme disease bacteria. (references) | ||
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Expression using "Lyme disease": Lyme Disease Vaccines. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Lyme disease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | Lyme sygdom. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | lyme-borreliose, ziekte van Lyme. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | maladie de Lyme (Lyme arthritis). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Lyme-Krankheit, Erythema-migrans-Krankheit. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | malattia di Lyme. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ymelay iseaseday enfermedad de Lyme. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-l-m-s-s-y" | |
-3 letters: dialyses, idealess, limeades, massedly, misdeals, misleads. | |
-4 letters: aediles, aidless, aimless, damsels, delimes, demises, dialyse, diesels, disease, dismals, dismays, emailed, essayed, eyeless, eyelids, idlesse, limeade, mealies, measled, measles, medials, medleys, messily, misdeal, misease, mislays, mislead, myiases, samiels, seaside, seedily, seidels, seismal, siamese, smileys. | |
-5 letters: adeems, aedile, aisled, aisles, amides, asides, daises, damsel, dassie, deasil. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 79 6D 65 44 69 73 65 61 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01111001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L y m e   D i s e a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0079 006D 0065 0044 0069 0073 0065 0061 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46917971238758571678571 |
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Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danois, dänisch, danese, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francese, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, alemán |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italien, italienisch, italiano |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, inglese, inglés |
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