adj
(pathology) Lacking the ability to utilize a vitamin
n
(euphemistic, medicine) Inability to cope (function psychologically and socially) in one's home environment.
n
(pathology, obsolete) Excessive eating due to a lack of the sensation of satiety.
n
(medicine, dated) A condition in which diagnosis and especially prognosis are uncertain.
n
(medicine) A lack or defect of the pulse.
adj
(medicine, historical, usually postpositive) Of a bodily humour: abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).
n
Alternative form of acoria [(pathology, obsolete) Excessive eating due to a lack of the sensation of satiety.]
adj
(medicine, dated) Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.
n
Any microorganism whose release and spread could cause a public health catastrophe.
adj
Alternative form of anorexic [Pertaining to, or suffering from anorexia nervosa.]
n
Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
adj
Alternative form of antiodontalgic [(rare) Countering toothache.]
adj
(medicine) Of or relating to apoplexy.
adj
(medicine) Of or resembling apoplexy.
adj
(medicine) Relating to apyrexy.
n
A person who has asthenia.
n
(pathology) Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings.
adj
Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabilious.
adj
(medicine, obsolete) Having an excess of black bile.
n
Any disease which is caused by vitamin deficiency.
n
Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
n
One of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology, that was believed to be secreted by the kidneys and spleen and to cause melancholy and sadness when present in excess.
n
Synonym of defurfuration
n
Alternative form of bulimic [A person suffering from bulimia nervosa.]
adj
Afflicted with, or pertaining to, byssinosis.
adj
(medicine, rare) Accompanied by diarrhea
adj
Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.
adj
Alternative form of cachectic [Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.]
n
(medicine, archaic) Cachexia.
n
(medicine, obsolete) A vitiated state of the humours, or bodily fluids.
adj
(archaic) Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.
n
Alternative form of cacochymia [(medicine, obsolete) A vitiated state of the humours, or bodily fluids.]
n
(medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.
n
An unbalanced state of mind; a mental or glandular disorder as from a malfunctioning thymus gland.
n
Alternative form of cacotrophy [(medicine, obsolete) Disordered or defective nutrition.]
adj
(medicine, obsolete) Exhibiting or relating to cacotrophy.
n
(medicine, obsolete) Disordered or defective nutrition.
n
Alternative form of cacoethes. [Compulsion; mania.]
adj
Alternative form of cacoethic. [Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethical.]
adj
Alternative form of cacoethical. [Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethic.]
n
(obsolete) One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
adj
Pertaining to, characteristic of, or having carborexia.
adj
(medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
n
One of the four humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile.
n
A person suffering from cholera (infectious disease).
n
(pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
n
(obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
n
(medicine) A disease occasioned or aggravated by overcrowding, especially due to lack of ventilation.
n
(medicine, obsolete) Bulimia.
adj
(medicine) Resembling dengue.
n
(medicine, archaic) A change or disorder in a secretion.
n
(archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
n
(now rare) Unhealthy imbalance of bodily humours; a disorder.
v
To transmit a venereal disease.
n
(medicine, colloquial, humorous or derogatory) Inability to cope, or the supposed illness for someone presenting for medical attention with symptoms stemming from difficulty coping in certain aspects of their lives.
n
(ancient usage) Imbalance of the four bodily humors (blood, black and yellow bile, phlegm) that was thought to cause disease.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Exhibiting dyscrasy.
n
(countable, literally) A bodily disorder; an imbalance of the humours
n
Alternative spelling of dyscrasia [(ancient usage) Imbalance of the four bodily humors (blood, black and yellow bile, phlegm) that was thought to cause disease.]
n
Alternative form of dyscrasia [(ancient usage) Imbalance of the four bodily humors (blood, black and yellow bile, phlegm) that was thought to cause disease.]
n
(pathology) An impaired or unnatural appetite.
n
Obsolete spelling of disease [(pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.]
n
A wasting of body tissues, of either genetic origin or due to inadequate or defective nutrition.
adj
(pathology) Abnormally excited.
n
(medicine, archaic) A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.
n
(ancient medicine) A condition of harmony or balance among the basic components or humours.
adj
(medicine) Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.
adj
(medicine, obsolete) Of the pulse: weak and rapid.
n
(medicine) An abnormal skin sensation similar to that of insects crawling over or within the skin; a tactile hallucination involving such a sensation. A common side-effect of substance abuse, it can also be experienced with high fever, menopause, skin cancer, diabetic neuropathy, or herpes zoster.
adj
(informal, often euphemistic) Used to form names or references to venereal diseases.
n
The abnormal appetite associated with such a disease; pica.
n
Alternative form of Gulf War syndrome [A chronic multisymptom disorder affecting veterans and civilians after the 1991 Gulf War, possibly related to chemical weapons.]
n
Alternative spelling of hay fever [(pathology, immunology) An allergy to the pollen of grass or other plants that causes symptoms similar to those of a cold; pollinosis.]
n
Alternative spelling of hay fever [(pathology, immunology) An allergy to the pollen of grass or other plants that causes symptoms similar to those of a cold; pollinosis.]
adj
Resembling the symptoms of herpes.
n
(medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
n
(archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
n
Alternative spelling of hyp [Hypochondria.]
adj
Exhibiting, or relating to, hyperpyrexia.
n
(obsolete, medicine) Melancholy; depression
adj
Obsolete form of hypochondriac. [Related to, or affected by hypochondria]
n
(medicine) A relapse, or return of a disease.
n
An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
n
Any material that causes inflammation
n
(pathology) A form of amnesia that is seen in chronic alcoholics coupled with nutritional deficits.
n
(pathology) A form of malnutrition, found in children, caused by dietary insufficiency of protein in combination with a high-carbohydrate diet.
adj
(medicine) Exhibiting the features of kwashiorkor; kwashiorkor-like.
n
(archaic, medicine) Emaciation; atrophy.
n
A person suffering from a marasmus
n
(medicine, obsolete) A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
n
Obsolete form of melancholy. [(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.]
n
Obsolete spelling of melancholy [(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.]
n
(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
n
(historical) The obsolete belief that diseases are caused by a miasma, or noxious form of air.
adj
Alternative form of naevose [Having naevi.]
n
A place of infection in an organism.
n
The occurrence of nosebleeds.
adj
(obsolete) Synonym of paludal (“malarial”)
n
(medicine) A condition resembling an infection but not caused by an infectious agent.
v
(medicine, usually in the past participle) To cause (a person or animal) to exhibit signs and symptoms of Parkinsonism, especially as an extrapyramidal side effect from antipsychotic medications.
adj
(medicine) Resembling (but not) Parkinson's disease or parkinsonism.
adj
Related to, or suffering from, pellagra.
n
Any skin abnormality resulting from exposure to cold.
adj
Obsolete form of phthisic. [Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive.]
adj
Nonstandard spelling of phthisic. [Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive.]
n
(medicine) The inability to regulate one's body temperature.
n
The sensation of itching
n
(anatomy) A nerve ending that acts as a receptor of itching sensations
n
(medicine, rare) A sneeze; sneezing; especially spasmodic sneezing.
adj
(pathology, chemistry) generating or produced by heat, especially in the body; causing or caused by fever
adj
(medicine) Of gout, an attack in which surface symptoms such as joint inflammation disappear suddenly, and are replaced by affections of the internal organs.
n
Synonym of muscle dysmorphia
adj
(biology) Secreting; secretory.
adj
(medicine) Producing seizures.
n
Alternative form of soroche [(obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sickness]
n
(historical) One of the three classes of disease recognized by the Ancient Greek Methodic school of medicine, in which some parts of the body are constricted and others relaxed.
n
(medicine) emaciation or wasting away
adj
Relating to, or suffering from, tanorexia.
adj
(medicine) Causing tetanus or tetaniform spasms.
n
Malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system.
n
(obsolete) The treatment of venereal disease by sweating in a hot tub.
adj
Characterised by or relating to typhus.
adj
Obsolete form of typhous. [(medicine) Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.]
adj
Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease.
n
(obsolete) One who has a venereal disease.
adj
Obsolete spelling of venereal [Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse.]
n
Any medical condition that causes pronounced loss of body mass.
n
(pathology) A form of heritable dementia found in Britain and the British.
n
One of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology, that was believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irascibility, anger, and bad temper when present in excess.
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