Lyme Disease Definition
līm
noun
An acute, recurrent, inflammatory disease caused by a spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) transmitted by certain ticks (esp. Ixodes dammini), characterized at first by a skin rash, headache, fever, etc. and later by arthritis, neurological damage, and cardiac abnormalities.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- Lyme arthritis
Other Word Forms of Lyme Disease
Noun
Singular:
Lyme disease
Plural:
lyme-diseasesOrigin of Lyme Disease
After Lyme and Old Lyme , towns in southeast Connecticut where the diagnosis of an unusually high number of juvenile arthritis cases in 1975 led to the identification of the disease
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Named after the town of Lyme, Connecticut, USA, where a number of cases were identified in 1975.
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