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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

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