Disease Phrases

Phrases

• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
• Avoid like the plague
• Bridesmaid syndrome
• Broken-heart syndrome (A heart condition brought on by stress)
• Bush Derangement Syndrome
• Cancer stick
• Cat scratch fever
• Catch your death of cold
• China syndrome
• Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Disease has no greater enemy (Glaxo/Wellcome advertising slogan)
• Disease marketing
• Do you like hospital food?
• Dreaded lurgi
• Economy class syndrome
• Elm City (Nickname of New Haven Connecticut)
• Empty nest syndrome
• False memory syndrome
• Flea pit
• Foam at the mouth
• Germ laden
• Germ of an idea
• Germ warfare
• Helsinki syndrome
• In sickness and in health
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Irritable vowel syndrome
• Life is a sexually transmitted disease
• Man flu
• Morning sickness
• Pox on both your houses
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Social disease
• Special hospital (A euphemistic term for a mental hospital)
• Stockholm syndrome
• The British disease
• The China Syndrome (Michael Douglas / Walter Matthau / Jane Fonda movie)
• The English disease
• Typhoid Mary (Nickname of Mary Mallom)