Blennorrhea: an abnormal
discharge of mucous matter.
Bromism: a poisoning
produced by excessive use of bromine or bromine compounds.
Bulimia: a raging hunger or
voracious appetite.
Bulimorexia: a
psychological condition in which the person alternately gorges himself with
food and fasts, often resorting to self-induced vomiting after gorging.
Cacesthesia: a morbid
sensation or disordered sensibility.
Cacoethes: a chronic and
overwhelming desire; mania.
Calciphilia: a tendency
to calcification.
Calenture: a tropical f
ever accompanied by delirium.
Carphology: the motions
of delirious or senile patients, especially motions of searching for and
grasping at imaginary objects.
Caseation: the change in
consistency of tissue to a soft, cheese like form, as in tuberculosis.
Catabasis: the
tapering-off of a disease.
Catalepsy: a
physical condition characterized by a loss of sensation, muscular rigidity, fixity
of posture, and often by a loss of contact with surroundings.
Chalicosis: a lung
disease caused by the breathing in of dust, especially stone dust.
Chloralism: a sickness caused
by excessive use of chloral hydrate.
Chlorosis: green
sickness; a disease of girls in puberty, characterized by, among other
symptoms, greenish skin.
Chorea: a disease of the
nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movement.
Choromania: the dancing
sickness (epidemic chorea).
Cirrhosis: a degenerative
disease of the liver, marked by an excessive formation of tissue and
contraction of the organ, usually brought on by chronic alcohol abuse.
Clonism: a state or
condition in which the muscles undergo clonus, or rapid flex-ion and extension.
Coiyza: a condition of
catarrh in the nose; a head cold.
Cyanosis: bluish discolouration of the skin caused by lack of oxygen in the bloodstream.
Cypridophobia: an
abnormal fear of venereal disease.
Cytopathology: the branch of pathology that
studies the effects of disease on the cellular level.