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Kachexia

Emaciation, consumption

 

Kaltbrandig

Affected with cold gangrene

Kälte

Chill

 

Kalter Brand

Gangrene.

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Kaltes Fieber

Intermittent fever, ague

 

Karbunkel

Carbuncle, anthrax

 

Karies

Caries

 

Karzinom

Carcinoma

 

Katalepsie

Catalepsy; a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli.

 

Katarakt

Cataract

 

Katarrh

Catarrh

 

Kehlkopfentzündung        

Laryngitis

 

Chronische Kehlkopfentzündung        

Chronic Laryngitis.

(Entry from a Church in New York)

 

Kehlkopf-Katarrh

Laryngeal catarrh

 

Kehlkopfkrebs

Throat cancer

 

Kehlsucht

The mumps, parotitis

 

Keuchhusten

Whooping cough, pertussis

Im Kindbett

In Childbed; puerperal

Kindbettfieber

Puerperal fever

Kinderbraüne Croup

 

Kindercholera Infantile Cholera

(Entry from a Church in Wisconsin)

Kinderkrämpfe

Infantile convulsions, eclampsia infantum.

Kinderkrankheit

Disease of children, infantile disease.

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Kinderlähmung

Polio

 

Kinderrothen

Dysentery of children?

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Kinderschwäche

Infantile weakness.

(Entry from a Mennonite church in Tragheimerweide, Prussia)

 

Kinderschwämmchen

Aphtha; roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

 

Klopfen

Palpitation, beating

 

Knöchel-Fieber

Dengue, Dengue fever, Break bone fever

 

Knochenfraß

Caries

Knochenkrebs

Bone cancer

 

Knochenmarkentzündung

Osteomyelitis

 

Knochenmarkkrebs

Bone marrow cancer

 

Knochenschwund

Atrophy of bone

 

Knochentuberkulose

spinal tuberculosis

 

Knochenweiche

Rickets;rachitis

 

Knollensucht

Leprosy

 

Kohlenstaublunge

Anthracosis, Miner's pneumoconiosis

 

Kolik

Colic

Kolitis

Colitis

 

Kollaps

Collapse

 

Kongestion

Congestion

 

Königskrankheit

Jaundice

 

Konjunktivitis

Conjunctivitis

 

Konvulsion

Convulsion

 

Kopfentzündung

Inflammation of the brain.

Kopfgeschwür

Ulcer of the head

Kopfgicht

Cephalagra

Kopfkrankheit

Affection of the head

Kopfleiden

Affection of the head

Kopfrose

Erysipelas of the head

 

Kopfschmerzen

Headache

 

Kopfwasser

Hydrocephalus (short for Kopfwassersucht)

Kopfwassersucht

Dropsy of the brain, hydrocephalus ; a usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.

 

Kopfweh

Headache

 

Körperschwäche

Bodily weakness, debility

(Entry from a Church in Wisconsin)

 

Koxarthritis

Coxitis; inflammation of the hip joint.

 

Kräfteverfall

Cachexia

 

Krampf

Cramp, spasm, convulsion

 

Krampfader

Varicose vein

 

Krampfanfall

Convulsive fit

 

Krämpfe

Convulsions, cramps, neuropathy

Krampfhaften Zufallen

Spasmodic Attack

 

Krampfhusten

Spasmodic or convulsive cough

 

Krank

Sick

 

Krankheit

Sickness, illness, disease, malady, affliction, ailment

 

Chronische Krankheit

Chronic illness

 

Krätze

Scabies

 

Krebs

Cancer, carcinoma

Krebsgeschwulst

Cancerous tumor

 

Krebsgeschwür

Cancer sore, canker

 

Krebsschaden

Cancerous affection

 

Krebsschwäche

Weakness from cancer

 

Krebsübel

Cancer

 

Kretinismus

Cretinism; severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting.

 

Kreuzschmerz

Lumbago; a painful condition of the lower back, as one resulting from muscle strain or a slipped disk.

 

Kriebelkrankheit

Cereal convulsion. [Dunglison1868].

Creeping Sickness: the name by which the gangrenous form of Ergotism is known in Germany. [Thomas1875]

 

Kriegsfieber

War fever, Typhus

 

Kropf

Struma, goiter, derbyshire neck.

 

Krupp

Croup

 

Krustenflechte

Impetigo; a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode.

 

Kuhpocken

Cowpox

 

Kurzfristige Erkrankung

Short-term sickness

 

 

 

 

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