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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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