DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS
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Cachexy: malnutrition
Cacogastric: upset stomach
Cacospysy: irregular pulse
Caduceus: subject to falling sickness or epilepsy
Camp Fever: typhus
Canine Madness: rabies, hydrophobia
Canker: ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex
Catalepsy: seizures or trances
Catarrh: nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy
Cerebritis: inflamation of cerebrum or lead poisoning
Chilblain: swelling of extremeties caused by exposure to cold
Child Bed Fever: infection following birth of a child
Chin Cough: whooping cough
Chlorosis: iron deficiency anemia
Cholera: acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing
Cholera Morbus: characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, elevated temperature; possibly appendicitis
Cholecystitus: inflamation of the gall bladder
Cholelithiasis: gall stones
Chorea: disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing
Cold Plague: ague which is characterized by chills
Colic: abdominal pain and cramping
Congestive Chills: malaria with diarrhea
Consumption: tuberculosis
Congestion: any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs
Corruption: infection
Coryza: cold
Costiveness: constipation
Cramp Colic: appendicitis
Crop Sickness: overextended stomach
Croup: laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat
Cyanosis: dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood
Cynanche: diseases of throat
Cystitis: inflamation of the bladder
Source: Provided by Dan Burrows