See Also: Kashin-Bek disease(medicine)
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disease, fifth(medicine)
Little's disease(dictionary)
GVH disease(medicine)

ancestor (oh) and Kashin-Bek disease (medicine)


ancestor (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: ancestre, from Latin antecessor 'one who goes before', from antecedere; ANTECEDENT]
a member of your family who lived a long time ago
-see also descendant descendant
::My ancestors were French.
an animal that lived in the past, that modern animals have developed from
::Lions and house cats evolved from a common ancestor (=the same ancestor) .
the form in which a modern machine, vehicle etc first existed
ancestor of
::Babbage's invention was the ancestor of the modern computer.
-- ancestral /An5sestrEl/ adj
::the family's ancestral Home

Kashin-Bek disease (medicine)


Kashin-Bek disease


A form of generalised osteoarthrosis limited to areas of Asia, including the Urov river; believed to result from ingestion of wheat infected with the fungus Fusarium sporotrichiella.