MEDICAL TERM	DEFINITION
Abcpsia	Blindness
Abscessus	An inflamed, swollen area of the body where pus forms
Acuta	Severe
Addison's Disease	Anemia caused by kidney disease
Aegrotantem	Illness, sickness
Ague	Recurring fever and chills of Malaria
Ambustio	Burn or scald
American plague	Yellow fever
Anasarca	Edema or dropsy
Anchyosis	Stiffening of the joints
Aphonia	Voice loss due to psychological or organic causes
Aphtha	The infant disease 'Thrush'
Apoplexy	Stroke
Ascites	Serous fluid in the abdominal cavity
Asphycsia	Cyanotic and lack of oxygen
Atrophy	Wasting away or dimishing in size
Bad Blood	Syphilis
Bilious Fever	Caused by liver disorder
Biliousness	Jaundice associated with liver disease
Black Death	Bubonic Plague
Black Fever	Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions
Black Pox	Black small pox
Black vomit	Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever
Blackwater Fever	Dark urine associated with high temperature
Bladder in throat	Diphtheria
Blood poisoning	Bacterial infection:septicemia
Bloody Flux	Dysentery
Bloody sweat	Sweating sickness
Bone shave	Sciatica
Brain fever	Meningitis
Breakbone	Dengue fever
Bright's Disease	Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys
Bronze John	Yellow fever
Bule	Boil, tumor or swelling
Cachexy	Mlnutrition
Cacogastric	Upset stomach
Cacospysy	Irregular pulse
Caduceus	Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy
Camp Fever	Typhus: aka Camp diarrhea
Canine Madness	Rabies, Hydrophobia
Canker	Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
Carditis	Inflammation of heart wall
Catalepsy	Seizures/trances
Catarrh	Inflammation of mucous membranes in the nose and throat, accompanied by an increased secretion of mucous. Sometimes accompanied by fever and rarely, by cerebral hemorrhage
Cerebritis	inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
Cephalalgia	Headache
Chilblain	Swelling of the extremeties by exposure to cold
Child bed fever	Infection following birth of a child
Chin Cough	Whooping Cough
Chlorosis	Iron deficiency anemia
Cholera	Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal ling sloughing
Cholera morbus	Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature, etc.
Cholecystitus	Iflammation of the gall bladder
Cholelithiasis	Gall stones
Chorea	Disease characterized by contortions or convulsions
Chronic	Continuous
Cold plague	Ague which is characterized by chills
Colic	Abdominal pains, caused by abnormal condition of the bowel
Congestion	Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs
Congestiva	Excessive accumulation of blood in parts of the body
Congestive Fever	Malaria
Conjunctivitis	Inflammation of the eye or eyelid
Consecutiva	Unrelated illness following another
Constipatio	Constipation
Consumption	Tuberculosis
Continua	Without interruption
Contusio	A bruise or injury where the skin is broken
Corruption	Infection
Coryza	A cold
Costivenness	Constipation
Cramp Colic	Appendicitis
Cretinism	Congenital Hypothyroidism
Crop Sickness	Overextended stomach
Croup	Laryngitis, Diptheria, or Strep Throat
Cyanosis	Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood
Cynanche	Diseases of the throat
Cystitus	Inflammation of the bladder
Day fever	Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
Debilitas	Weakness or feebleness
Debility	Weakness or feebleness
Decreitude	Feebleness due to old age
Delirium Tremens	Hallucinations and seizures due to alcohol withdrawal
Dengue	infectious fever endemic to East Africa
Dentition	Cutting of teeth
Deplumation	Tumor of the eyelids which causes hairloss
Diary fever	A fever that lasts one day
Diptheria	Contagious disease of the throat
Distemper	Usually animal disease, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia
Dock fever	Yellow fever
Dresser	Surgeon's assistant in a hospital
Dropsy of the Brain	Encephalitis
Dropsy	Edema, Congestive Heart Failure
Dry bellyache	Lead poisoning
Dyscrasy	An abnormal body condition
Dysentery	Inflammation of intestinal membrane
Dysorexy	Reduced appetite
Dysepsia	Acid indigestion
Dysury	Difficulty in urination
Eclampsy	Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor
Ecstasy	A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason
Edema	Nephrosis; swelling of tissues
Edema of lungs	Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy
Eel thing	Erysipelas
Elephantiasis	A form of leprosy
Encephalitis	Swelling of the brain, aka Sleeping Sickness
Enteric fever	Typhoid fever
Enteritis	inflammation of the bowels
Enterocolitis	Inflammation of the intestines
Epitaxis	Nose bleed
Ersipelas	Acute infectious disease of the mucous membranes, inflammation of the skin, and fever
Extravasted Blood	Rupture of a blood vessel
Falling Sickness	Epilepsy
Fatty Liver	Cirrhosis of liver
Febris	Fever
Fits	Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
Flux	Discharge of fluid from the body
Flux of Humor	Circulation
French Pox	Veneral Disease
Galloping Consumption	Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Gathering	A collection of pus
Glandular Fever	Mononucleosus
Great Pox	Syphilis
Green Fever/Sickness	Anemia
Gripe	Infulenza
Grocer's itch	Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
Heart's Sickness	Condition caused by loss of salt from the body
Heat Stroke	Body tewmperature elevates because of surrounding environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. Coma and death result if not reversed
Hectical complaint	Recurrent fever
Hematemesis	Vomiting blood
Hematuria	Bloody urine
Hemiplegy	Paralysis of one side of body
Hemophthis	Spitting of Blood
Hemorrhia	Heavy bleeding
Herpes	Virus disease of the skin or mucous membranes
Hip Gout	Osteomylitis
Horrors	Delirium tremens
Hydrocephalus	Enlarged head, water on the brain
Hydropericardium	Heart dropsy
Hydrophobia	Rabies
Incipt Hydrothorax	Abnormal amount of watery fluid in the pleural cavity
Hypertrophic	Enlargement of organ, like the heart
Impetigo	Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules
Inanition	Physical condition resulting from lack of food
Infantile Paralysis	Polio
Intermitten	Starting and stopping
Intestinal Colic	Abdominal pain due to improper diet
Jail Fever	Typhus
Jaundice	Yellowing of the skin due to liver dysfunction (hyperbilirubinemia)
King's Evil	Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands
Kruchhusten	Whooping cough
Lagrippe	Influenza
Lock Jaw	Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days
Lues Disease	Syphilis
Lues Venera	Veneral disease
Lumbago	Backache
Lung Fever	Pneumonia
Lung Sickness	Tuberculosis
Lying In	Time of delivery of infant
Malignant Sore Throat	Diphtheria
Mania	Insanity
Marasmus	Progressive emaciation
Membranous Croup	Diphtheria
Meningitis	Inflationsof brai or spinal cord
Metritis	Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge
Miasma	Poisonous vapors believed to infect the air
Milk Fever	Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever or brucellosis
Milk Leg	Post partum thrombophlebitis
Milk Sickness	Disease from milk from cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds
Morbi Cutis	A skin disease
Mormal	Gangrene
Morphew	Scurvy blisters on the body
Mortification	Infection
Mortis	Death
Myelitis	Inflammation of the Spine
Myocarditis	Inflammation of the heart muscles
Necrosis	Mortification of bones or tissue, usually skin
Nephrosis	Kidney degeneration
Nephritis	Inflammation of the kidneys
Nervous Prostration	Extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities
Neuralgia	Described as discomfort, such as 'headache' was neuralgia in head
Neurasthenia	Neurotic condition
Nostalgia	Homesickness
Obit	Died
Opthalmia	Relating to the eye(s)
Otalgia	Earache
Palsy	Paralysis or loss of muscle control
Paronychia	A painful inflammation at the end of a toe or finger producing pus
Parotitis	Mumps
Paroxysm	Convulsion
Pemphigus	Skin disease of watery blisters
Pericarditis	Inflammation of heart
Peripneumonia	Inflammation of lungs
Peritonotis	Inflammation of abdominal area
Petechial Fever	Fever characterized by skin spotting
Phlegmon	Inflammation, especially of the connective tissues, leading to ulceration or abcess
Phthiriasis	Lice infestation
Phthisis Pulmonalis	A wasting away of the body or any part as in tuberculosis
Plague	An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality rate
Pleurisy	Inflammation of the lung
Pleuritis	Pleurisy
Podagra	Gout
Poliomyelitis	polio
Pott's Disease	Tuberculosis of the spinal vertebrae
Potter's Asthma	Fibroid pthisis
Pox	Syphilis
Puerperal Exhaustion	Death due to childbirth
Puerperal Fever	Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
Puking Fever	Milk sickness
Pulmonalis	Relating to the heart
Putrid Fever	Diptheria or Typhus
Quinsy	Tonsilitis
Qyotidiana	Fever occuring or returning daily
Remitting Fever	A fever that drops but does not altogether disappear
Rheumatism	Any disorder associated with pain in the joints
Rickets	Disease of the skeletal system
Rose Cold	Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
Rotanny Fever	(Child's disease) ???
Rubeola	Measles
Sanguinous Crust	Scab
Scarlet Fever	Disease characterized by a red rash and sore
Scarlet Rash	Rubeola
Scarletina	Scarlet Fever
Sciatica	Rheumatism in the hips
Scirrhus	Cancerous tumors
Scorbutus	Scurvy
Scotomy	Dizziness, nasuea and dimness of sight
Screws	Rheumatism
Schrivener's Palsy	Writer's cramp
Scrofula	Tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands
Scrumpox	Skin disease, impetigo
Scurvy	Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums and hemorrhage under skin
Septicemia	Blood poisoning
Shakes	Delirium tremens
Shaking	Chills, ague
Shingles	Viral disease with skin blisters
Ship's Fever	Typhus
Siriasis	Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure
Sloes	Milk sickness
Small Pox	Contagious diseasewith fever and blisters
Softening of the Brain	Apoplexy
Sore Throat Distemper	Diphtheria or quinsy
Spanish Influenza	Epidemic influenza
Spasms	Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, like a convulsion
Spina Bifida	Deformity of spine
Spotted Fever	Typhus, cerebrospinal meningitis fever
Sprue	Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat
St. Anthony's Fire	Also erysipelas, but named so because affected areas are bright red in appearance
St. Vitus Dance	Nervous twitches, Chorea
Stomatitis	Inflammation of the mouth
Stranger's fever	Yellow fever
Strangery	Rupture
Sub-Laxatio	An incomplete dislocation
Sudor Anglica	Sweating sickness
Summer Complaint	Dysentery or baby diarrhea caused by spoiled milk
Sunstroke	Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause
Swamp Sickness	Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis
Sweating Sickness	Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th century
Tetanus	Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness
Thrombosis	Blood clot inside blood vessel
Thrush	Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and throat
Tick Fever	Rocky mountain spotted fever
Toxemia of Pregnancy	Eclampsia
Trench Mouth	Painful ulcers found along gum line. Caused by poor nutrition and poor hygiene
Tussis Convulsiva	Whooping cough
Typhus	Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache and dizziness
Variola	Smallpox
Varix	Varicose veins
Venesection	Bleeding
Viper's Dance	St. Vitus Dance, Chorea
Vulnus	Relating to a wound
Vulnus Incisum	Relating to a wound caused by a cut
Vulnus Punctum	Relating to a wound caused by a puncture
Vulnus Sclopeticum	Relating to a wound caused by a gunshot wound
Water on Brain	Enlarged head
White Swelling	Tuberculosis of the bone
Whitlow	See Paronychia
Winter Fever	pneumonia
Womb Fever	Infection of the uterus
Worm Fit	Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature, or diarrhea
Yellow Jacket	Yellow Fever

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