Medicine is at least as much art as science. Often things are not clear-cut, but rather appear in shades of gray. We offer the following list of terminology for those who don't mind thinking in terms of black or white.
Medicine is at least as much art as science. Often things are not clear-cut, but rather appear in shades of gray. We offer the following list of terminology for those who don't mind thinking in terms of black or white.
Black death: Bubonic plague
Black fever: Kala azar
Black beauties: Amphetamines
Black damp: Atmosphere without oxygen (in coal mines)
Black spots film fault: Defect in x-ray caused by dust particles on the film
Blackheads: Comedones
Black lung: Coal worker's pneumoconiosis
Black water fever: Severe malaria
Black vomit: Seen in yellow fever
Blackfan-Diamond disease: Pure red cell aplasia
Blackleg (also black quarter and black spaul): Symptomatic anthrax in cattle and sheep
Black dot ringworm: Tinea capitis
Blackout: Syncope
Black eye: Periorbital ecchymosis
Black heel: Petechial hemorrhages in heels of athletes
Black liver jaundice syndrome: Dubin-Johnson syndrome
Black light: Ultraviolet long-wave light
Black hairy tongue: Benign hyperplasia of filiform papillae
Black measles: Hemorrhagic measles
Black piedra: Tropical disease of hair shafts
Blacklocks syndrome: Variant of tyrosinase plus albinism
Blackfat tobacco: Tobacco mixed with Vaseline and smoked, producing progressive pulmonary fibrosis (in Guyana)
Black fly fever: Condition produced by black fly bite in children mainly in rural northeastern United States
Black blood disease: Congenital methemoglobinemia
Black baby syndrome: Fetal PCB syndrome
Black thyroid syndrome: Discoloration of thyroid from minocycline use
White plague: Tuberculosis
White liver: Steatosis of liver
White atrophy: Atrophy of epidermis
White thrombus: Thrombus composed of white blood cells
White spots film fault: Defect in x-ray caused by air bubbles in developer
Whiteheads: Comedones
White dermographism: Skin finding in atopic dermatitis
White damp: Carbon monoxide (in coal mines)
White leg: Milk leg, phlegmasia alba dolens
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: Ventricular pre-excitation syndrome
White line of scurvy: Dense zone of provisional calcification at metaphyseal ends of bone
Marshall-White syndrome: Ischemic angiospastic spots on the palms associated with insomnia and tachycardia
White's disease: Keratosis follicularis (Darier disease)
Bland-White-Garland syndrome: Anomalous origin of left coronary artery
White spot disease: Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus
White sponge nevus: Cannon nevus of oral or nasal mucosa
White pox: Variola minor
White gangrene: Gangrene from local anemia
White piedra: Disease of hair shafts (temperate and tropical climates)
White bodies: Platelet emboli in retinal vessels after a transient ischemic attack
White femoral shortening procedure
White sliding heel cord lengthening procedure
White infarct: Fibrin deposition on placenta
Samman-White syndrome: Yellow nail syndrome
White clot: Heparin-associated thrombocytopenia and thrombosis
White Dragon Pearl syndrome: A female pattern of drug dependence named after attractive and well-educated Hong Kong women who became addicted as a result of contact with wealthy men in the illegal drug trade
White liver disease: Reye syndrome
White finger syndrome: Occupational Raynaud disease
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