childhood diseases
Kids' common sicknesses
Childhood diseases are illnesses that predominantly affect children, either because they typically occur during youth or because most adults have already acquired immunity.
The term covers conditions like measles, mumps, chickenpox, and whooping cough—infections that once swept through populations of children before vaccines became widespread.
She had all the usual childhood diseases before she was ten.
Figuratively, childhood diseases can describe early-stage problems in organizations or systems that will eventually be outgrown: The startup's server crashes were childhood diseases of rapid growth.
- rubellaViral illness with rash
- chickenpoxContagious blistering viral infection
- diphtheriaBacterial throat membrane disease
- whooping coughRespiratory infection with characteristic bark
- roseolaChildhood viral fever-rash illness
fever · measles · rash · scarlet fever · mumps · hand foot mouth · contagious · croup · polio · ear infection · scurvy · chill · rheumatic fever · rickets · pertussis · ache · growing pains · spots
- pediatricspediatrician, pediatricians, pediatrics, pediatric care, pediatric clinics
- medical historyHippocrates, germ theory, bloodletting, Galen, four humors
childhood diseasesage-related diseases
Disorders linked to advancing years
degenerative diseases · Alzheimer's disease · Parkinson's disease · osteoporosis · occupational diseases