Ailments

All of the solutions are to do with medical ailments, split into common and uncommon terms. See how many you can solve. Hover over the respective black box for the answer and definition. For a comprehensive list of medical ailment words compiled by David Sutton see the ABSP site.

Common

	ANAEMIA (anemic) deficient in red blood cells.
	MALARIA a tropical disease.
	HEADACHE a pain inside the head.
	ASTHMATIC suffering from ASTHMA: ASTHMATICALLY; (noun) one suffering from ASTHMA: ASTHMATICS.
	CATARRH inflammation of a mucous membrane.
	PARALYSIS the state of being unable to move: PARALYSES.
	RABIES an infectious viral disease. [L. rabere, to be mad].
	RUBELLA German measles.
	CANCER a malignant growth.
	JAUNDICE a disease that causes yellowing of the eyes; (verb) to prejudice unfavorably.
	DEMENTIA chronic mental and emotional deterioration caused by organic brain disease.
	MEASLE to catch or infect with MEASLES: MEASLES, MEASLING, MEASLED.
	FLATULENT suffering from FLATULENCE, stomach gas: FLATULENTLY.
	MIGRAINE a severe throbbing pain affecting only one half of the head or face.
	NAUSEOUS causing NAUSEA, a feeling of discomfort or sickness: NAUSEOUSLY.
	TETANUS an acute infectious disease characterized by tonic rigidity and violent spasms of some or all of the voluntary muscles, caused by infection with the bacterium Clostridium tetani; aka LOCKJAW: TETANUSES.
	PNEUMONIA a disease of the lungs.
	HALITOSIS bad breath: halitoses.
	RICKETS a disease resulting from vitamin D deficiency. No RICKET*.
	SCURVY scabby, mean: SCURVIER, SCURVIEST; SCURVILY; (noun) a disease caused by lack of Vitamin C.

Uncommon

	TERATOMA a tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterogenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle: TERATOMAS or TERATOMATA. [Gk. teras, -atos monster].
	SCROFULA tuberculosis of the lymph nodes, esp. in the neck, giving rise to abscesses: SCROFULAS. [L. scrofulae, from scrofa, a sow (supposed to be prone to it)].
	TRICHINA a type of nematode worm parasitic in rat, pig, and man, the adult in the small intestine, the larva encysted in muscle: TRICHINAE or TRICHINAS.
	ISCHURIA retention of urine.
	CHYLURIA a morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.
	XERODERMA morbid dryness of skin, ichythosis: XERODERMAS or XERODERMAE.
	DYSMELIA the condition in which one or more limbs are misshapen or incomplete.
	PYODERMA any skin disease resulting in PUSTULES and/or PUS.
	HEMIOPIA (hemiopsia) a defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees only half of an object looked at.
	VALGUS any deformity of a limb joint which causes a distal bone or bones to be displaced obliquely outwards (orig. inwards), as in knock-knee and some forms of club-foot: VALGUSES. Cf. VARUS.
	PHOTOPIA vision in illumination similar to daylight, believed to involve chiefly the cones of the retina.
	LUXATION the dislocation of an anatomical part.
	TURISTA intestinal sickness affecting a tourist in a foreign country.
	BRUXISM habitual grinding of the teeth.
	GREENSICK suffering from CHLOROSIS.
	SOROCHE mountain sickness. [Quechua surucht, antimony, found in the Andes and thought to cause the sickness].
	EPITONIC subjected to excessive strain; overstrained.
	NEURITIS inflammation of the nerves: NEURITISES or NEURITIDES.
	TOPHUS a gouty deposit: TOPHI.
	VULVITIS inflammation of the VULVA: VULVITISES.

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