CABARRUS COUNTY

NORTH CAROLINA

American History & Genealogy Project

DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS

D - E

  • Day Fever: fever lasting one day; sweating sickness
  • Debility: lack of movement or staying in bed
  • Decrepitude: feebleness due to old age
  • Delirium tremens: hallucinations due to alchoholism
  • Dengue: infectious fever endemic to East Africa
  • Dentition: cutting of teeth
  • Deplumation: tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss
  • Diary Fever: fever that lasts one day
  • Diptheria: contagious disease of the throat
  • Distemper: usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and throat, anorexia
  • Dock Fever: Yellow Fever
  • Dropsy: edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease
  • Dropsy of the Brain: Encephalitis
  • Dry Bellyache: lead poisoning
  • Dyscrasy: abnormal body condition
  • Dysentery: inflamation of colon with frequent passage
  • Dysorexy: reduced appetite of mucous and blood
  • Dyspepsia: indigestion and heartburn; heart attack symptoms
  • Dysury: difficulty in urination
  • Eclampsy: symptoms of epilepsy; convulsions during labor
  • Ecstasy: form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason
  • Edema: nephrosis; swelling of tissues
  • Edema of Lungs: congestive heart failure, form of dropsy
  • Eel Thing: erysipelas
  • Elephantiasis: form of leprosy
  • Encephalitis: swelling of brain; sleeping sickness
  • Enteric Fever: Typhoid Fever
  • Enterocolitis: inflamation of the intestines
  • Enteritis: inflamationof the bowels
  • Epitaxis: nose bleed
  • Erysipelas: contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions
  • Extravasted Blood: rupture of a blood vessel

Source: Provided by Dan Burrows

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