childhood disease
Mumps or chickenpox
A childhood disease is an illness that typically occurs in children, often because exposure during youth confers lasting immunity.
Measles, mumps, and chickenpox were once considered inevitable childhood diseases before vaccines.
The phrase sometimes appears figuratively for problems characteristic of early stages: Growing pains are a childhood disease of new companies.
- mumpsViral gland inflammation
- chickenpoxContagious blistering viral infection
- rubellaViral illness with rash
- roseolaChildhood viral fever-rash illness
- measlesContagious viral rash illness
polio · rash · whooping cough · cystic fibrosis · scarlet fever · croup · vaccination · diphtheria · fever · rickets · contagious · quarantine period · immunization · MMR · booster shot · scurvy · lead poisoning · calamine
childhood diseasedegenerative disease
Illness causing gradual decline
Alzheimer's disease · Parkinson's disease · osteoporosis · dementia · arthritis