Medical Definition of Chronic disease

1. Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronic Disease

chronic atrophic thyroiditis
chronic bacillary diarrhoea
chronic bronchitis
chronic cellular dehydration
chronic cholecystitis
chronic cicatrizing enteritis
chronic conjunctivitis
chronic constrictive pericarditis
chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis
chronic cystic mastitis
chronic desquamative gingivitis
chronic diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis
chronic discoid lupus erythematosus
chronic disease (current term)
chronic dysentery of cattle
chronic eczema
chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
chronic familial icterus
chronic familial jaundice
chronic familial polyneuritis
chronic fatigue syndrome
chronic fibrosing alveolitis
chronic fibrous thyroiditis
chronic focal sclerosing osteomyelitis
chronic follicular conjunctivitis
chronic gastritis
chronic glaucoma
chronic glomerulonephritis

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