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-diseases

Origin 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.

    From Wiktionary

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