Delitescence: the
sudden disappearance of symptoms or of objective signs of a lesion or disease.
Diathesis: a susceptibility
to a certain disease.
Digitalism: an abnormal
condition caused by excessive consumption of digitalis.
Diplegia: a form of
paralysis in which similar parts on both sides of the body are affected.
Down’s syndrome: a genetic
health situation affecting new born infant born with extra genetic chromosome
which tend to limit the growth and development of the child.
Dysidrosis: a condition
of abnormally excessive secretion of sweat.
Dysmenorrhea: a
condition of painful menstruation.
Dyspepsia: an impairment
of the ability to digest food, usually a discomfort after meals.
Dystrophy, dystrophia: any of
various diseases characterized by weakening or defective function of the
process of nutrition, resulting in degeneration of the muscles.
Dysuria: difficulty or pain
in urinating.
Eclamptism: a toxemia
sometimes occurring in late pregnancy marked by visual impairment, headache,
and occasionally, convulsions.
Ectasia: the swelling of a
hollow organ of the body, as a vein.
Edema: abnormal collecting of
fluids in the cells, tissues, and other parts of the body, causing swelling.
Emesis: an act of vomiting.
Emmeniopathy: disorder
in the process of menstruation.
Empyema: the collecting of
pus in one of the cavities of the body, especially in the cavity containing the
lungs.
Epidemic: a disease that
is widely prevalent in a particular area.
Epigenesis: the
appearance of a secondary symptom in a disease or illness.
Epilepsy: a disease of the
nervous system characterized by convulsions, often leading to unconsciousness.
Epitasis: a period of
violence in the course of a disease, especially a fever.
Epithelioma; a
malignant tumor found especially on the skin, mouth, larynx, and bladder.
1.
An excessive irritability or sensibility to stimulation in any part of the
body, especially the sexual organs.
2. A psychic disturbance characterized by irritability, emotional instability, depression, shyness, and fatigue, often caused by toxicity.
2. A psychic disturbance characterized by irritability, emotional instability, depression, shyness, and fatigue, often caused by toxicity.
Erysipelas: an
infectious disease of the skin marked by inflammation and accompanied by fever.
Erythema: an abnormal red
condition of the skin, the result of capillary congestion.
Erythromelalgia: a
disease of the hands and feet characterized by a purplish discoloration and a
sensation of burning pain.
Erythrosis: a
pathological condition characterized by a reddish color of the skin and mucous
membrane.
Etiolation: paleness of
color as a result of illness or exclusion from light.