Diseases

King's Evil

The historic designation for scrofula (TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE). The disease is so called from the belief that it could be healed by the touch of a king. This term is used only for historical articles using the name king's evil, and is to be differentiated from scrofula as lymph node tuberculosis in modern clinical medicine. (From Webster, 3d ed)

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The historic designation for scrofula (TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE). The disease is so called from the belief that it could be healed by the touch of a king. This term is used only for historical articles using the name king's evil, and is to be differentiated from scrofula as lymph node tuberculosis in modern clinical medicine. (From Webster, 3d ed)

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5 entry terms
  • Kings Evil
  • Evil, King's
  • Evil, Kings
  • Evils, Kings
  • Kings Evils

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Indexing Annotation

= scrofula in hist articles only: differentiate from SCROFULA see TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE which is restricted to scrofula in modern clin med

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Previous Indexing

  • Tuberculosis, Lymph Node (1966-1994)

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  1. C01w.150.252w.410.040.552.846w.617w.475w.500

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. King's Evil. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018601. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018601
  2. King's Evil. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68882216