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 |
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 |
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 |