** Degenerative discs

** Degenerative joint disease with detached spur

** Addison's disease is a rare disorder in which the adrenal glands do not produce sufficient amounts of glucocorticoids ( mainly cortisol ).

** Bluetongue disease fact sheet

** Diseases: cancer — diabetes — obesity — hereditary disease — communicable disease

** Maple syrup urine disease and other organic acidurias

** Type 1 glycogen storage disease

** Type III glycogen storage disease.

** Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease afflicts patients later in life.

** Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease is far less common, but more severe, than the dominant condition.

** Family Bornaviridae-Borna disease virus

** Salt, allowing a horse to catch the nagana disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas

** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires ' disease.

** Lloyd French, American director, heart disease ( d. 1950 )

** Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires ' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.

** Woody Guthrie, American folk musician ( b. 1912 ) ( Huntington's disease )

** Insomnia: Insomnia is often a symptom of a mood disorder ( i. e., emotional stress, anxiety, depression ) or underlying health condition ( i. e., asthma, diabetes, heart disease, pregnancy or neurological conditions ).

** Rh D negative antenatal patients should receive RhoGam at 28 weeks to prevent Rh disease.

** George Huntington, provided an early comprehensive description of Huntington's disease

** Lyme, Connecticut, a town in southeastern Connecticut, the namesake of Lyme disease

** The pathologic process, injury, or disease that directly results in or initiates a series of events that lead to a person's death ( also called mechanism of death ), such as a bullet wound to the head, exsanguination caused by a stab wound, manual or ligature strangulation, myocardial infarction resulting from coronary artery disease, etc.

** Endocrinologic: Diabetes mellitus type 1, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Addison's disease

** Gastrointestinal: Coeliac disease, Crohn's Disease, Pernicious anaemia

** If a team is penalized in the final minute of a half and the penalty causes the clock to stop, the opposing team now has the right to have 10 seconds run off the clock in addition to the yardage penalty.

** coathanger – slang for high contact to the head, usually by a stiff arm, which causes a player to land flat on their back.

** Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase deficiency, causes metabolic acidosis and severe hypoglycemia.

** Hysteresis: Changing or reversing the magnetic field in the core also causes losses due to the motion of the tiny magnetic domains it is composed of.

** Natural causes

** Nuclear: A runaway nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction causes immense energy release.

** A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage.

** In Irian Jaya, an earthquake of magnitude 7. 5 and associated tidal waves kills 102 people and causes widespread devastation.

** An F3 tornado away from the Westminster, Maryland city center injures 3 people and causes $ 5 million in damages.

** Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.

** The divorce case of The Duke and Duchess of Argyll causes scandal in the United Kingdom.

** Laura Welch ( later Bush ) causes a car accident that results in the death of Michael Dutton Douglas in her hometown of Midland, Texas.

** A lightning strike causes the crashing of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, killing 81 people.

** An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extended pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milano, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.

** A blizzard causes a massive power outage in Newfoundland.

** United States The Roseburg Oregon Blast kills 14 and causes $ 12 million worth of damage.

** An 8. 6 Richter scale Haiyuan earthquake causes a landslide in Gansu Province, China, killing 180, 000.

** An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all life on board.

** The assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law.

** The 1970 Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru ; more than 47, 000 people are killed.

** A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.

** A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600, 000 tons ( 176, 400, 000 gallons ) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.

** A cyclone in the Arabian Sea causes flooding in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100, 000 dead.

** The rate of occurrence within a living population of a broken chromosome that causes a genetic disorder

** Blister agent or vesicant, chemical compound that causes severe skin, eye and mucosal pain and irritation