DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS
D
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
E
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