Accouchement

Delivery in childbed. [Webster1913]

Acrimony

Corrosive sharpness. [Buchan1798]

Acute

A disease, the symptoms of which are violent, and tend to a speedy termination, is called acute. [Buchan1798]

Disease characterized by abrupt or sudden onset, usually with severe symptoms. Acute disease, as a rule, lasts a comparatively short time-no more than a few weeks. [Encarta]

Adiposity

The state of being fat; fatness. [Webster]

Adust

Dry, warm. [Buchan1798]

Adynamic

Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility. [CancerWEB]

Ailment

Any disease or affection of the body, usually referring to slight or mild disorder. [Dorland]

Amputation

The removal of a limb or other appendage or outgrowth of the body. [Dorland]

Apposition

A mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance. [Webster]

Chyle

A milky fluid separated from the aliment in the intestines, and conveyed by the absorbents into the blood to supply the waste of the animal body. [Buchan1798]

Chronic

A disease whose progress is slow, in opposition to acute. [Buchan1798]

Disease characterized by longer duration, often months or years. It is usually associated with symptoms of less severe intensity.  [Encarta]

Comminuted

Broken into several pieces. [CivilWarMed]

Communicable

Disease that is transmissible by direct or indirect contact with infection. [Encarta]

Complicating

Disease that occurs during or after an illness and has the same cause as the original disease or results from changes produced by the original disease. [Encarta]

Congenital

Disease present in an infant at birth; it may be caused by hereditary factors or result from a prenatal condition or disease. [Encarta]

Contagious

Highly transmissible disease. [Encarta]

Decumbiture

Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness. --Boyle. [Webster1913]

Deficiency

Disease resulting from a lack of vitamins or minerals in the diet or a failure to absorb vitamins or minerals from food. [Encarta]

Effusion

The seeping of serous, purulent, or bloody fluid into a body cavity or tissue. [Heritage]

Emanation

That which is given off. [Dorland]

Emission

A discharge.

Endemic

Disease that occurs continuously or recurrently in a particular geographic region. [Encarta]

Epidemic

Disease that attacks simultaneously a large number of persons living in a particular geographic region. [Encarta]

Eructation

The casting up of wind from the stomach through the mouth. Called also belching. [Dorland]

Exacerbation

An increase in the severity of a disease of its symptoms. [CancerWEB]

Excrement

Waste material, especially fecal matter that is expelled from the body after digestion. [Dorland]

Excrescence

An outgrowth or enlargement, especially an abnormal one, such as a wart. [Heritage]

Extravasated Blood

To exude from a vessel into surrounding tissue. [Webster]

Extravasation

The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels. [Webster]

Febrile

Pertaining to fever. Characterized by fever. Called also feverish, pyrectic, pyretic, and pyrexial. [Dorland]

Festering

To generate pus; suppurate. [Heritage]

Fetid

Having a rank or disagreeable smell. [Dorland]

Flatulence

The presence of excessive gas in the digestive tract. [Dorland]

Functional

Disease in which there is no significant anatomical change in the tissues or organs to account for the change in function or the performance of the body.  [Encarta]

Hereditary

Disease transmitted from parent to offspring genetically. [Encarta]

Idiopathic

Disease in which the cause is unknown. [Encarta]

Incubus

Nightmare

Metastatic

A secondary cancerous growth formed by transmission of cancerous cells from a primary growth located elsewhere in the body. [Heritage]

Morbific

Causing disease, or diseased. [Buchan1798]

Mucus

The matter discharged from the nose, lungs, etc. [Buchan1798]

Occupational

Disease that results directly or indirectly from the patient's job. [Encarta]

Organic

Disease in which there are significant anatomical changes in the tissues or organs. [Encarta]

Pandemic

Disease that occurs more or less over the entire world at the same time. [Encarta]

Primary

Term used in several ways to characterize disease. When an individual has several diseases, the term primary may refer to the initial disease or to the most important disease. Sometimes it is used to denote a disease or group of diseases for which there is no specific cause. At times it is used to indicate the site in which a pathological process begins. [Encarta]

Prognosis

Medical assessment of the probable outcome or the prospect for recovery of the disease. [Encarta]

Psychosomatic

Disease that seems to be caused or worsened by psychological factors. It may or may not produce anatomical changes. [Encarta]

Puerperal

Relating to, connected with, or occurring during childbirth or the period immediately following childbirth. [Dorland]

Pus

Matter contained in a boil. [Buchan1798]

Remittent

Any disease which presents remissions. [Dunglison1868]

Secondary

Disease that results from a definite contributing factor. For instance, secondary anemia may result from blood loss or blood destruction. [Encarta]

Somnolence

A state of drowsiness; sleepiness. [Heritage]

Sporadic

Disease that occurs in isolated cases in a locality where it is neither endemic nor epidemic. [Encarta]

Stigma

A mark, spot, or pore on the surface of an organ or organism. [Dorland]

Subacute

Disease characterized by an onset that is not as abrupt as in the acute form and with symptoms less severe and of shorter duration than chronic. [Encarta]