Morbus and syndrome

[Lava]

Just having been asked by an American doctor about Gilberts Syndrome I thought it might be nice to have a list of morbuses with different names in German and Anglo-American literature.

German - English

M. Meulengracht - Gilberts Syndrome

[hypnotel]

quite a good idea, ad hoc i can only reminisce


M. Basedow - Graves' disease

[Tombow]

ALS - Lou Gehrig's Disease

[Fino]

M.Basedow - Grave's disease

Purpura Schoenlein-Henoch - Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura

[test]

Sprue/Zöliakie - Celiac's disease

[McBeal]

These paediatric diseases are no syndromes, but do also have different names in German and English:

Windpocken - chicken pox
Röteln - German measles ("Deutsche Masern" ;-) )

Aortenisthmusstenose - coarctation of the aorta

Best regards,
Ally

[Leeze]

Raccoon eyes ("Waschbäraugen") - Brillenhämatom
Superior vena cava syndrome - obere Einflussstauung (oder?)
Eaton-Lambert - Lambert-Eaton
"Gillian - Barry" - Guillain-Barré :-D

[Patella]

Epstein-Barr-Virus Infektion --> kissing disease

[Muriel]

I like:
Erysipel - Cellulitis

at least women think of something else, I guess :-))

[SidVicious]

Epstein-Barr-Virus Infektion --> kissing disease

Mononukloesis / Mono

[Tombow]

Influenza ("echte" Grippe) - Flu

[Hanna_85]

engl.: thyphoid fever
= ger.: Thyphus (Thyphus abdominalis, pathogen: salmonellea)

engl.: thyphus
= ger.: Fleckfieber (Thyphus exanthemicus, pathogen: rickettsiae)


...very confusing

[test]

engl.: thyphoid fever
= ger.: Thyphus (Thyphus abdominalis, pathogen: salmonellea)

engl.: thyphus
= ger.: Fleckfieber (Thyphus exanthemicus, pathogen: rickettsiae)


...very confusing

And even more confusing, there are three types of Typhus:
epidemic t
endemic t
scrub typhus

:-)) :-angel