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Title Medical Facts

MEDICAL FACTS & TRIVIA &

EUPHEMISMS and SYNONYMS:

"THERE'S A WORD" & PHOBIAS

& "I'M TIRED, ARE YOU?""

& "GOES TO SLEEP"

& "GETTING WORSE"

& "GETTING HEALTHY"

& "CRAZY"

& "FEELING GREAT"

& "VOMIT"

& "Rare Diseases & Odd Names"


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Medical Facts & Trivia

 Medical Facts & Trivia

  • Cobwebs have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, and were used in ancient Greece and Rome by physicians to make bandages
  • The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents (by comparison dogs are estimated to be able to smell up to 100,000 times better than humans)
  • A human fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of 3 months
  • Like fingerprints, every individual has a unique tongue print
  • Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph, coughs a mere 60 mph
  • Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour, or 1  & 1/2 pounds each year
  • Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, It would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime
  • The average red blood cell lives 120 days
  • There are about 43,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body
  • An adult brain weighs about 3 pounds
  • A human head weighs about 11 pounds
  • The largest solid internal organ is your liver. It weighs approximately 3 to 3.5 pounds
  • A healthy human bladder can hold between 400 to 500 milliliters of urine, or about 2 cups, before it reaches capacity 
  • It is a myth that humans only use 10%  of our brain. We actually use all of it!


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THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT & PHOBIAS

 "There's a Word for That!"

  • Cardialgia: (noun) heartburn
  • Eructation: (noun) a burp
  • Formication: (noun) the sensation of small insects crawling on or under your skin
  • Horripilation: (noun) goosebumps
  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: (noun) a lung disease caused by the inhaling of silica dust 
  • Sternutate: (noun) sneeze
  • Trichotillomania : (noun)  a compulsion to pull out one's hair
  • Veisalgia: (noun) hangover symptoms


PHOBIAS from A to Z


A

Ablutophobia: Fear of bathing and cleaning

Acephobia - Fear, dislike, or hatred of asexual people and/or human asexuality

Achluophobia - Fear of darkness

Acrophobia - Fear of heights

Aerophobia - Fear of flying

Afrophoboa - Fear, hate, or dislike of Africans and African descendants.

Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds

Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse.

Aibohphobia - Fear of palindrome (a palindrome itself

Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects

Algophobia - Fear of pain

Alliumphobia: Fear of garlic

Altophobia - Fear of heights

Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car

Androphobia - Fear of men

Anginophobia - Fear of angina or choking

Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers

Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society

Aphephobia - Fear of being touched

Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched

Aphobia - Fearlessness, a lack of fear

Apiphobia - Fear of bees

Aquaphobia - Fear of water

Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders

Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers

Asiaphobia - Fear, hate, or dislike of Asians and those of Asian descent

Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightning

Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection

Atychiphobia - Fear of failure

Aulophobia - Fear of flutes

Aurophobia - Fear of gold

Automatonophobia - Fear of human-like figures

Autophobia - Fear of being alone

Aviophobia - Fear of flying

B

Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria

Barophobia - Fear of gravity

Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes

Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians

Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles

Bibliophobia - Fear of books

Biophobia - Aversion to nature

Biphobia - Antipathy towards bisexuals

Botanophobia - Fear of plants

Brontophobia - Fear of thunder

C

Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness

Caligynephobia (venustraphobia) - Fear of beautiful women

Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed

Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors

Chaetophobia -  Fear of hair 

Chionophobia - Fear of snow

Chromophobia - Fear of colors

Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks

Chronophobia - Fear of time

Cisphobia - Fear or hatred of cissexuality or cisgenderism, or of cis individuals

Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces

Computerphobia - Fear of computers

Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns

Cyberphobia - Fear of computers

Cynophobia - Fear of dogs

D

Dendrophobia - Fear of trees

Dentophobia - Fear of dentists

Dextrophobia - Fear of having objects to your right

Domatophobia - Fear of houses

Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents

E

Ebulliophobia – Fear of bubbles

Ecclesiophobia – Fear of church

Ecophobia – Fear of one’s home

Eisoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror

Electrophobia – Fear of electricity

Eleutherophobia – Fear of freedom 

Elurophobia - Fear of cats

Emetophobia – Fear of vomiting

Enetophobia – Fear of pins

Enochlophobia – Fear of crowds

Enosiophobia – Fear of criticism or committing an unpardonable sin

Entomophobia – Fear of insects

Eosophobia – Fear of dawn or daylight

Ephebiphobia – Fear of adolescents or youth

Epistaxiophobia – Fear of nosebleeds

Epistemophobia – Fear of knowledge

Equinophobia – Fear of horses

Eremophobia – Fear of being oneself

Ereuthrophobia – Fear of blushing

Ergophobia – Fear of work

Erotophobia – Fear of sex or sexual intimacy

Euphobia – Fear of hearing good news

Eurotophobia – fear of female genitalia

F

Fatphobia - Fear and dislike of people and/or obesity

Febriphobia – Fear of fever

Francophobia – Fear of France or French people

Frigophobia – Fear of becoming too cold

G

Gamophobia - Fear of marriage

Gayphobia -  Fear, dislike or hatred of gay people

Geliophobia - Fear of laughter

Genuphobia - Fear of knees

Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public

Gynophobia - Fear of women

H

Haphephobia - Fear of touch

Heliophobia - Fear of the sun

Hemophobia - Fear of blood

Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - Fear of long words

Homophobia - Fear, hatred, or mistrust of lesbians and gay men.

Hydrophobia - Fear of water

Hypochondria - Fear of illness

I

Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors

Ideophobia - Fear of reason or ideas

Insectophobia - Fear of insects

J

Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese people

Judeophobia - Fear of Jews

K

Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure

Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down

Kinemortophobia - Fear of zombies

Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms

Koumpounophobia - Fear of buttons

L

Leukophobia - Fear of the color white

Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes

Linonophobia - Fear of string

Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth

Logophobia - Fear of reading (or learning how)

M

Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking

Megalophobia - Fear of large things

Melanophobia - Fear of the color black

Microphobia - Fear of small things

Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs

N

Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things

Negrophobia - Fear of or contempt for black people and their culture

Neophobia - Fear of new things and experiences

Noctiphobia - Fear of the night

Nomophobia: Fear of not having a mobile phone

Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals

Nostophobia - Fear of returning home

Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark

O

Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight

Octophobia - Fear of the number eight

Ombrophobia - Fear of rain

Omphalophobia - Fear of belly buttons

Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes

Ornithophobia - Fear of birds

Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish

P

Panphobia - fear of everything

Papyrophobia - Fear of paper

Pathophobia - Fear of disease

Pedophobia - Fear of children

Philematophobia - Fear of kissing

Philophobia - Fear of love

Phobophobia - Fear of having a phobia

Photophobia - An abnormal sensitivity to or intolerance of light, especially by the eyes

Plutophobia - Fear of money

Podophobia - Fear of feet

Pogonophobia - Fear of beards

Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple

Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns

Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying

Pyrophobia - Fear of fire

Q

Quadraphobia - Fearing the number four

Quintaphobia - Fearing the number five

Quadriplegiaphobia - Fearing becoming a quadriplegic or being afraid of quadriplegic

R

Radiophobia - Fear of radiation, X rays

Ranidaphobia - Fear of frogs

Rhabdophobia - Fear of being beaten or punishment

Rhypophobia - Fear of defecation

Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles

Rupophobia - Fear of dirt

Russophobia - Fear of Russians

S

Samhainophobia - Fear of Halloween

Scolionophobia - Fear of school

Scoptophobia - Fear of being stared at

Selenophobia - Fear of the moon

Sesquipedalophobia - Fear of long words

Sexphobia or sexophobia - Fear or loathing of sexual activity

Siderophobia - Fear of stars

Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation

Somniphobia - Fear of sleep

Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry

T

Tachophobia - Fear of speed

Taphephobia - Fear of being buried alive

Technophobia - Fear of technology

Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder

Triskadecaphobia: - Fear of the number thirteen

Trypanophobia - Fear of needles/injections

Trypophobia - Fear of holes

U

Uranophobia - Fear of heaven (See also Ouranophobia)

Urophobia-Fear of urine or urinating

V

Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women

Verminophobia - Fear of germs

W

Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft

X

Xanthophobia - Fear of the color yellow

Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners

Y

Ylophobia – Fear of trees, forests or wood (See also Hylophobia and Xylophobia)

Z

Zoophobia - Fear of animals


"I'M TIRED, ARE YOU?"

AAAAA

Abased

Aesthenia

Aesthenic

All done

All in but one's shoestrings

All tuckered out

All used up

Asthenic

Atrophied

Attenuated


BBBBB

Beat

Beat down

Beaten

Beaten down

Bedraggled

Bleary

Bled dry

Bone tired

Broken down

Brought to one's knees

Burned out

Burning the candle at both ends

Burnt out

Bushed


CCCCC

Conked out

Consumed

Coopered out


DDDDD

Dead on one's feet

Dead tired

Debilitated

Defeated

Deflated

Degraded

Depleted

Diminished

Dispirited

Dog-tired

Dog-weary

Dogs are barking

Done for the day

Done in

Down and out

Dragged down

Dragging

Drained

Drained dry

Drooping

Droopy

Drop-dead tired


EEEEE

Eaten up

Emptied out

Empty 

Enervated

Etiolated

Exhausted


FFFFF

Faded

Fading

Fagged

Fagged out

Fatigued

Feeble

Feeling low

Fizzled

Flagging

Flamed out

Flat out tired

Flax out

Flaxed

Frazzled

Fried


GGGGG

Gas tank is low

Gave out

Get up and go got up and went

Give out

Goopy


HHHHH

Haggard

Half dead

Huffed and puffed

Huffing and puffing


IIIII

Impotent

Impuissant

Indisposed


JJJJJ

Jaded


KKKKK

Knackered


LLLLL

Lackadaisical

Languid

Languorous

Last legs

Limber

Limp

Listless

Low on energy

Low on fuel

Low on gas

Low on reserves


NNNNN

No energy

No gas left in the tank


OOOOO

On its last leg

On life support

On reserve batteries

On your last leg

Out of fuel

Out of gas

Out of juice

Out of power

Out of reserve energy

Out of steam

Out on your feet

Overburdened

Overcome with fatigue

Overexerted

Overextended

Overtaxed

Overtired

Overworked


PPPPP

Petered out

Played out

Plum tired

Plum tuckered out

Plum wore out

Poohed out

Pooped out

Powerless

Prostrate


RRRRR

Ran out of gas

Ravaged

Ready to drop

Reduced

Reduced strength

Runs out of gas

Runs out of steam

Running on empty

Running on fumes

Running out of gas

Run through


SSSSS

Sapped

Sapped of energy

Sapped out

Sent for and couldn't come

Shabby

Shagged out

Shattered

Shot

Sick and tired

Slap wore out

Sluggish

Spent

Spiritless

Stale

Standing on its last leg

Sucked dry


TTTTT

Tank is empty

Tapped

The mind is willing but the body is not able

Tired as a one-armed paper hanger

Tired as a worn-out shoe

Tired as all get out

Tired as an old hound dog 

Tired as an old man

Tired as an ox after a full day's work in the fields

Tired as bears during hibernation

Tired as the wings of a bird

Tired to the bone

Toilworn

Too pooped to peep

Too weak to whip a gnat

Torpid

Tuckered out


UUUUU

Unable to muster any energy

Used up


VVVVV

Vapid


WWWWW

Wagged out

Washed-out

Wasted

Wayworn

Weak

Weak as a baby

Weak as a kitten

Weak as a lamb that can't stand the weight of its own wool

Weakened

Wearied

Weariful

Weary

Weather-worn

Weathered

Whacked

Whipped

White-eyed

Wilt

Wilted

Wiped out

Wither

Withered

Wore out

Worked into the ground

Worked too hard

Worn down

Worn down to the nub

Worn out

Worn slap out

Worn to the nub

Worn to a frazzle

Wrecked


ZZZZZ

Zapped

Zapped of energy

Zonked


"Go to Sleep/BED" Synonyms & Euphemisms

  • Bag the z's
  • Bed down 
  • Bed down for the night 
  • Bed time 
  • Beddy bye 
  • Blow some z's 
  • Bunk for the night 
  • Bunking out 
  • Call it a night 
  • Catch some shut eye 
  • Catch some z's 
  • Cop a few z's 
  • Cop some z's 
  • Count sheep 
  • Crash 
  • Crawl into the sack 
  • Dreamland 
  • Drift off 
  • Fall into bed 
  • Fall asleep 
  • Flatten the mattress 
  • Get forty winks 
  • Get in the feathers 
  • Get in the hay 
  • Get shut eye 
  • Get some sleep 
  • Get some z's 
  • Get to bed 
  • Go to sleep 
  • Going to the rack 
  • Going to turn in for the night 
  • Hit the bed 
  • Hit the feathers 
  • Hit the hay 
  • Hit the rack 
  • Hit the sack 
  • Lay down for the night 
  • Lay your head down 
  • Nod off 
  • Out like a light 
  • Put one's head down
  • Rack down 
  • Retire for the night 
  • Retire to bed 
  • Sack out 
  • Sack time 
  • Slumber 
  • Snooze 
  • Take a nap 
  • Take a siesta 
  • Take a snooze 
  • Turn in
  • Under the covers 
  • Visit dreamland 
  • Visit the land of Nod 
  • Wink out 
  • Zonk out

"GETTING WORSE " Synonyms & Euphemisms

   

  • A wreck
  • Afflicted
  • Ailing
  • Below par
  • Bummed
  • Croaking
  • Debilitated
  • Declining
  • Diseased
  • Down
  • Down with
  • Dying
  • Feeble
  • Feeling awful
  • Feeling badly
  • Feeling ill
  • Feeling rotten
  • Feeling terrible
  • Feeling worse
  • Flailing
  • Frail
  • Got the bug
  • In poor health
  • Indisposed
  • Infirm
  • Laid low
  • Laid up
  • Low sick
  • Off one's feet
  • On sick list
  • Out of sorts
  • Peaked
  • Poorly
  • Rotten
  • Run-down
  • Running temperature
  • Sick as a dog
  • Queasy
  • Under the weather
  • Unhealthy
  • Unwell
  • Weak
  • Woozy


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"GETTING HEALTHY" SYNONYMS & EUPHEMISMS

 A

  • Advancing health
  • Ameliorating disease/health
  • Ameliorating illness
  • Amelioration

B

  • Bad health improving
  • Bad health resolving
  • Better and better
  • Bettering oneself
  • Becoming healthier
  • Bouncing back
  • Bounding back
  • Breathing new life into
  • Building back up
  • Building health back (up) 
  • Building up strength

C

  • Clearing up
  • Coming along
  • Coming around
  • Coming back
  • Coming through
  • Continuing to improve
  • Convalescing

D

  • Dissolving disease
  • Doing better

E

  • Eradicating illness

F

  • Feeling better
  • Feeling (like) yourself again
  • Feeling fitter
  • Feeling perkier
  • Feeling spryer
  • Fitter
  • Forging ahead

G

  • Gaining ground
  • Getting a foothold on health
  • Getting a hold of yourself
  • Getting a new lease on life
  • Getting back in(to) peak condition
  • Getting back in the pink
  • Getting back in(to) trim
  • Getting back on your feet
  • Getting back to health
  • Getting back to normal
  • Getting better
  • Getting fitter
  • Getting healed
  • Getting healthy
  • Getting in(to) proper trim
  • Getting in(to) trim
  • Getting over
  • Getting over the hump
  • Getting peppier
  • Getting sounder
  • Getting spryer
  • Getting stronger
  • Getting through
  • Getting up to snuff
  • Getting your health back
  • Getting your strength back
  • Getting well

H

  • Hardier
  • Healing
  • Healing nicely
  • Healing up
  • Healing up nicely
  • Healthier
  • Heartier

I

  • Illness improving
  • Illness resolving
  • Improved
  • Improving
  • Improving day by day
  • Improving health
  • Improving health outcome
  • Improving health outlook
  • Improving health prognosis
  • Improving health status
  • Increasing health
  • Increasing health outcome
  • Increasing health outlook

J

  • Jumping back into health

K

  • Kicking back into gear
  • Kicking the habit

L

  • Less bad
  • Less ill
  • Looking up

M

  • Making a comeback
  • Making a recovery
  • Making headway
  • Making progress
  • Mending
  • Mending bones
  • Mending mind and bod

N

  • Nursing back to health

O

  • Off the critical list
  • On the comeback trail
  • On the mend
  • On the road to recovery
  • On the upswing
  • Out of danger
  • Out of the woods
  • Outlook favorable
  • Outlook improving
  • Over the hump
  • Overcoming
  • Overcoming adverse health

P

  • Pepping up
  • Perking up
  • Picking up
  • Prognosis is improving
  • Progressing
  • Progressing at a good pace
  • Progressing better than expected 
  • Progressing nicely
  • Progressing satisfactorily 
  • Progressing well
  • Pulling out of it
  • Pulling round
  • Pulling through
  • Pushing forward

Q

  • Quick to improve
  • Quickening the pace of progres

R

  • Rallying
  • Rebounding
  • Rebounding back (in)to health
  • Recovering
  • Recouping
  • Recuperating
  • Regaining your form
  • Regaining your health
  • Regenerating
  • Rehabbing
  • Rehabilitating
  • Rejoin the living
  • Rejoining the human race
  • Rejuvenating
  • Remediating
  • Renewing
  • Resolving illness
  • Responding to treatment
  • Restoring form
  • Restoring health
  • Resuscitating
  • Returning to form
  • Returning to health
  • Reversing course for the better
  • Revitalizing
  • Revivifying
  • Reviving

S

  • Shaping up
  • Showing improvement
  • Sickness improving
  • Sickness resolving
  • Snapping back
  • Snapping out of it
  • Sounder
  • Speeding to recover
  • Springing back
  • Springing back (in)to health
  • Starting to look up
  • Strengthening
  • Stronger

T

  • Taking a turn for the better
  • Through the woods
  • Turning around
  • Turning the corner

U

  • Upgraded medical condition
  • Upgraded medical status
  • Upgraded outlook
  • Upswinging

V

  • Vital signs improving
  • Vivify
  • Vivifying

W

  • Weather(ing) the storm

Y

  • Yearning for health

Z

  • Zipping back to health

"Crazy" Synonyms AND Euphemisms

AAAAA

Aberrant

Addlebrained

Addled

Addlepated

Amok

Amuck

Anomalous

As daft as a brush

Away with the fairies


BBBBB

Balmy

Bananas

Barking

Barking mad

Barmy

Bar Mystery

Bat's

Bat's in the belfry

Batty

Bedlam

Berserk

Bizarre

Bizarro

Bonkers

Brainsick

Buggy

Bushed


CCCCC

Capricious

Certifiable

Crackbrained

Cracked

Crackers

Crackpot

Crank

Crazed

Crazy

Crazy as a loon

Cuckoo


DDDDD

Daffy

Daft

Delirious

Demented

Derailed

Deranged

Deviant

Dingbat

Disordered

Distracted

Distraught

Disturbed

Dotty


EEEEE

Eccentric


FFFFF

Foaming at the mouth

Frantic

Freak

Freaky

Frenzied

Frothing at the mouth

Fruity


GGGGG

Gaga


HHHHH

Haywire

Head case

Hebephrenic

Hysterical


IIIII

Insane

Irrational

Irregular


KKKKK

Kook

Kookie

Kooky


LLLLL

Loco

Loon

Looney

Loony

Loopy

Lunatic


MMMMM

Mad

Mad as a hatter

Mad as a March hare

Madman

Maniac

Maniacal

Manic

Mental

Mentally ill

Mentally irregular

Meshuga

Misfit

Moonstruck


NNNNN

Not all there

Not in one's right mind

Not (quite) right in the head

Not right upstairs

Not the full shilling

Not together

Nut

Nutcase

Nuts

Nutso

Nutsy

Nutter

Nutty

Nutty as a fruitcake


OOOOO

Odd

Oddball

Of unsound mind

Off-center

Off one's head

Off one's nut

Off one's rocker

Off one's trolley

Off the wall

Of unsound mind

One can short of a six-pack

Out of one's mind

Out of one's tree

Over the edge


PPPPP

Peculiar

Porangi

Psycho

Psychopathic

Psychopathological

Psychotic

Puddingheaded


QQQQQ

Quirky


RRRRR

Rabid

Raving

Round the bend


SSSSS

Scatterbrained

Schizoid

Schizzy

Screwball

Screwy

Senseless

Sick

Sick in the head

Sociopathic

Squirrelly

Stark raving mad

Strange


TTTTT

Tetched

Touched


UUUUU

Unbalanced

Unglued

Unhinged

Unreasonable

Unsound

Unstable

Up the pole


WWWWW

wackado

Wackadoodle

Wacko

Wacky

Way out

Weird

Weirdo

Whacky

With a screw loose


"FEELING GREAT" SYNONYMS AND EUPHEMISMS

 A

  • A1
  • A-OK
  • A plus
  • Able
  • Able-bodied
  • Ace
  • Active
  • Admirable
  • Aerobicized
  • Agile
  • Alive and fit
  • Alive and healthy
  • Alive and intact
  • Alive and kicking
  • Alive and well
  • All good
  • All oak and iron bound
  • All right
  • Amazing
  • Ambulatory
  • As good as it gets
  • Astonishing
  • Astounding
  • Athletic
  • Attractive
  • August
  • Auspicious
  • Awe-inspiring
  • Awesome

B

  • Bad to the bone
  • Badass
  • Bang-up
  • Banging
  • Beautiful
  • Beautious
  • Beefy
  • Beyond compare
  • Bitchin'
  • Blooming
  • Blue chip
  • Bodacious
  • Boffo
  • Bonny
  • Boss
  • Bouncing
  • Bouncy
  • Brawny
  • Breathtaking
  • Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
  • Brilliant
  • Buff
  • Bull
  • Burgeoning
  • Burly
  • Bursting with energy
  • Bursting with health
  • Bushy-tailed
  • Buxom

C

  • Capital
  • Charming
  • Chillin'
  • Chipper
  • Choice
  • Clean-cut
  • Colossal
  • Cool
  • Corking
  • Could not be better
  • Crackerjack
  • Cracking
  • Crazy

D

  • Dandy
  • Dapper
  • Daunting
  • Dazzling
  • Delightful
  • Divine
  • Dope
  • Dynamite

E

  • Effervescent
  • Elegant
  • Enchanting
  • Energetic
  • Enjoying health
  • Enjoying health and vigor
  • Excellent
  • Exceptional
  • Exciting
  • Exquisite
  • Extraordinary
  • Extremely fit
  • Extremely healthy
  • Extremely well
  • Extremely well look
  • Eye-popping

F

  • Fab
  • Fabulous
  • Famously
  • Fantabulous
  • Fantastic
  • Far out
  • Fascinating
  • Fearsome
  • Feeling A-Number-One
  • Feeling bad (as in good) 
  • Feeling fine
  • Fighting fit
  • Fine
  • Fine and dandy
  • Fine as frog's hair split four ways*
  • Fire
  • First class
  • First rate
  • First-string
  • Fit
  • Fitz
  • Fit as a fiddle
  • Fit as a flea
  • Five-star
  • Flawless
  • Fleek
  • Flourishing
  • Flush
  • Forging ahead
  • Formidable
  • Four-star
  • Fresh
  • Fresh as a daisy
  • Fresh as paint
  • Full of beans
  • Full of energy
  • Full of life
  • Full of pep

G

  • Gangbusters
  • Gargantuan
  • Gigantic
  • Gilt-edged
  • Glorious
  • Glow with health
  • GOAT (greatest of all time)
  • Going strong
  • Golden
  • Good 
  • Good as new
  • Gorgeous
  • Grand
  • Great
  • Groovy
  • Gucci

H

  • Heavenly
  • Hale
  • Hard
  • Hardy
  • Having good health
  • Healthful
  • Healthy
  • Healthy as a horse
  • Heart-stopping
  • Hearty
  • Hefty
  • Herculean
  • Huge
  • Hunky
  • Hunky-dory
  • Husky

I

  • Ideal
  • Illustrious
  • Immense
  • lmpeccable
  • Imposing
  • Impressive
  • In a fit state
  • Incomparable
  • Incredible
  • In excellent health
  • In excellent shape
  • In fine feather
  • In fine fettle
  • In fine form
  • In good condition
  • In good health
  • In good kilter
  • In good order
  • In good shape
  • In good trim
  • In great shape
  • In high feather
  • Inimitable
  • In mint condition
  • In order
  • In peak condition
  • In perfect form
  • In rude health
  • Insane
  • Inspiring
  • In Shape
  • In the gravy
  • In the pink (of health)
  • In tip-top condition
  • In tip-top shape
  • In top form
  • In trim
  • In very good health
  • Iron

J

  • Jaw-dropping
  • Jim-dandy
  • Jolly good
  • Joyous
  • Just fine

K

  • Keen
  • Kickass
  • Killer

L

  • Lacking disease
  • Letter perfect
  • Like a bull
  • Like a charm
  • Like new
  • Lit
  • Lively
  • Lovely
  • Luscious
  • Lustrous
  • Luxurious

M

  • Made of iron
  • Magic
  • Magnificent
  • Majestic
  • Major
  • Marvellous
  • Marvy
  • Matchless
  • Mean
  • Meaty
  • Mega
  • Mighty
  • Mind bending
  • Mind-blowing
  • Miraculous
  • Monstrous
  • Monumental
  • Muscular

N

  • Neat
  • Nice
  • Nifty
  • Noble
  • Nondisabled
  • Nonpareil
  • Not ill
  • Numero uno

O

  • Off the wall
  • Okay
  • Okey-dokey
  • On cloud nine
  • On the go
  • On top form
  • On top of the world
  • Optimal
  • Optimum
  • Out and about
  • Out of sight
  • Out of this world
  • Outrageous
  • Outstanding
  • Overwhelming

P

  • Par excellence
  • Peachy
  • Peachy keen
  • Pepful
  • Peppy
  • Perfect
  • Perfectly fine
  • Perfectly healthy
  • Phantasmagorical
  • Phatt
  • Phenomenal
  • Physically fit
  • Physically strong
  • Physically vigorous
  • Picture of health
  • Picture perfect
  • Potent
  • Powerful
  • Powerfully built
  • Preeminent
  • Premium
  • Prime
  • Primo
  • Princely
  • Prodigious
  • Prospering

Q

  • Quality

R

  • Rad
  • Radical
  • Refreshed
  • Remarkable
  • Resplendent
  • Ridiculous
  • Right
  • Rigfht as nails
  • Right as ninepence
  • Right as rain
  • Right as rain as a trivet
  • Righteous
  • Ripped
  • Ripping
  • Robust
  • Rugged

S

  • Safe and well
  • Salubrious
  • Salutary
  • Second to none
  • Sensational
  • Showing good health
  • Shredded
  • Sick
  • Sizzling
  • Smashing
  • Sound
  • Sound as a barrel
  • Sound as a bell
  • Sound as a roach
  • Sound in body and limb
  • Sound in wind and limb
  • Sparkling
  • Spectacular
  • Spiffy
  • Splendid
  • Splendiferous
  • Sprightful
  • Sprightly
  • Spry
  • Staggering
  • Stalwart
  • Startling
  • Stately
  • Staunch
  • Stellar
  • Sterling
  • Stirring
  • Stout
  • Strapping
  • Striking
  • Strong
  • Strong as a bull
  • Strong as an eagle
  • Strong as a horse
  • Strong as a lion
  • Strong as an ox
  • Strong as bull(s)
  • Strong as Hercules
  • Strong as iron
  • Strong as the wind
  • Strong as Zeus
  • Stunning
  • Stupefying
  • Stupendous
  • Strapping
  • Sturdy
  • Sublime
  • Super
  • Super duper
  • Superb
  • Superior
  • Superlative
  • Supernal
  • Supreme
  • Supremely well
  • Surprising
  • Sweet
  • Swell

T

  • Terrif
  • Terrific
  • The bomb
  • Thoroughly sound
  • Thriving
  • Tip-top
  • To die for
  • Toned up
  • Top
  • Top drawer
  • Top hole
  • Top notch
  • Top-shelf
  • Top-of-the-line
  • Tops
  • Totally fine
  • Tough
  • Towering
  • Tremendous
  • Trim
  • Triumphant
  • Tubular

U

  • Unbelievable
  • Uncrippled
  • Unequalled
  • Unmatched
  • Unparalleled
  • Unreal
  • Unrivaled
  • Unsurpassable
  • Up ro snuff
  • Upbeat

V

  • Very fit
  • Very fit and well
  • Very good
  • Very healthy
  • Very healthy and strong
  • Very well
  • Vibrant
  • Vigorous
  • Virile
  • Vital

W

  • Well
  • Well built
  • Well conditioned
  • Well-nourished
  • Well-preserved
  • Whole
  • Wholesome
  • Wicked
  • Without equal
  • Wonderful
  • Wondrous
  • World-class
  • Wowza

X

  • Xcellent

Y

  • Yowza

Z

  • Zero cool
  • Zippy

"VOMIT" Synonyms AND Euphemisms



VERB


AAAAA


Air (one's) belly

Air (one's) paunch

Argue with the worms


BBBBB


Bare your guts to the world

Barf (onomatopoiea) 

Barffalo Bill

Barforama

Bark at the ants (vomit outside) 

Become a multicolored organic fountain

Be airsick (kinetotic) 

Be carsick (kinetotic)

Be motionsick (kinetic)

Be seasick (kinetotic)

Be sick (British) 

Belch forth

Belch the bile by-product

Big vom dot com

Blow a hole in the bowl

Blow beets

Blow chow

Blow chunks

Blow (one's) breakfast

Blow (one's) cereal

Blow (one's) cookies

Blow (one's) dinner

Blow (one's) doughnuts

Blow (one's) grits

Blow (one's) groceries

Blow (one's) lunch

Blow (one's) okra

Blow (one's) supper

Boag

Boak (Scotland) 

Bob

Boke (Ireland, Scotland) 

Boot

Bow down before the porcelain god

Bow down to the porcelain god

Bow to the porcelain

 queen

Brake

Bring it up

Bring it up for a vote

Bring up

Buick (onomatopoeia) 

Burk

Burp to the ninth power


CCCCC


Cack

Cack up

Call dinosaurs

Call Earl (onomatopoiea)

Call for Huey (onomatopoiea)

Call for O'Rourke (onomatopoiea)

Call Huey on the big white telephone

Call of the walrus (onomatopoiea)

Call Ralph on the big white phone

Call Ralph on the big white telephone

Call Ralph on the porcelain  phone

Call the buffalos

Call to the seals

Call Uncle Ralph on the big porcelain telephone

Call up some dinosaurs

Cascade

Cast out

Cast up one's accounts

Cat

Chuck (Australia)

Chuck a Veggie

Chuck (one's) cookies

Chuck up

Chumming

Chunder (Australia)

Chunk eruption

Clean the pipes

Cough up (one's) cookies

Cronk (Australia, obsolete) 

Cry Ruth (onomatopoiea)


DDDDD


De-food

Deja food

Deliver Street Pizza

Dial the porcelain phone

Disembark dinner

Disembogue

Disgorge

Do a Technicolor yawn

Do the Hoakey Croaky

Do the Technicolor yawn

Download dinner

Drain the bilge

Drive the porcelain bus

Drive the big bus

Drive the big white bus (British)

Drop (one's) cookies

Dry heave


EEEEE


Earl (rhymes with Hurl, onomatopoiea)

Earl’s knocking at the door

Earp

Eat backwards

Egestion

Egurgitate

Eject

Empty one's stomach

Evacuate all you ate

Expunge the contents of your stomach


FFFFF


Fail a fortitude save

Feed fish

Feed the fish

Feed the fishes

Feed the goldfish

Fergle

Fertilize the bushes

Find out just how acidic your stomach contents are

Flash (one's) cookies

Flash the hash


GGGGG


Gack

Gag

Get sick

Give forth

Go for the big spit (Australia)

Go for the second chew

Gragg

Greet your guts

Gurp


HHHHH


Ham hawk

Have an up and under

Have a spit

Have to say "that tasted better going down than coming up"

Heave

Heave (one's) boots

Heave up

Heave up (one's) bootheels

Heave up Jonah

Heave up (one's) shoelaces

Heave up (one's) toes

Hendrix (choke to death on vomit) 

Hoark

Holler New York

Honk (British) 

Honk Smurfs

Horf (from Ren & Stimpy, to gag back up) 

Hork

Hughie

Hug the porcelain goddess

Hug the throne

Hug the toilet

Hurl (Irish) 

Hurl forth

Hyperemesis gravidarum


IIIII


I’m going to see Earl


JJJJJ


Jazz up the carpet

Jettison the chunky cargo


KKKKK


Keck

Kinetotic

Kiss Ralph

Kotz (German) 


LLLLL


Laugh at the ground

Laugh at the toilet

Laugh at the lawn

Launch (one's) lunch

Leggo my Eggo

Liquidate your assets

Liquid laugh (Australia) 

Look for aardvarks

Lose (one's) breakfast

Lose (one's) cookies

Lose (one's) dinner

Lose (one's) doughnuts

Lose (one's) groceries

Lose (one's) load

Lose (one's) lunch. 

Lose (one's) okra

Lose (one's) supper


MMMMM


Make a map

Make modern art in the toilet

Make the janitor get out the ol’ sawdust bucket

Make your big toes go flat


PPPPP


Paint the town red.. and green and orange and pink

Paint the walls (projectile vomit) 

Parbreak

Park (one's) cookies

Park a tiger ( South Africa) 

Park the tiger (British)

Park your groceries

Perform peristaltic pyrotechnics

Perk (Australia)

Play the whale (Australia) 

Pray at the porcelain altar

Pray to Dionysus (Greek god of wine) 

Pray to the great ceramic idol

Pray to the porcelain god

Pray to the porcelain gods

Puke (onomatopoiea)

Purge


RRRRR


Ralph (onomatopoiea)

Readjust fluids

Regerhatated

Regorge

Regurgitate

Retch

Retroperistalsis

Reverse peristalsis

Review (one's) lunch

Review the menu

Revisit your breakfast

Ride the regurgitron

Roll

Roop


SSSSS


Sanctify 

See (one's) lunch again

Sell the Buick

Shomit (portmanteau, defecate and vomit simultaneously) 

Shoot the cat (British) 

Shot (one's) cookies

Shout at your shoes

Shout for Hughie (Scotland, onomatopoiea) 

Sick as a dog

Sick as a parrot

Sick to your stomach

Sick up (British) 

Sing a rainbow

Sing New York

Singing like a duck

Smuck your yuck (Scotland) 

Snap (one's) cookies 

Snot the hotdog

Speak Dutch (onomatopoeia) 

Speak Welsh (onomatopoiea)

Spew

Spew chunks

Spew out

Spew up

Spew your guts

Spill (one's) cookies

Spill your Breakkie (breakfast, Australia)

Spit the furry lifesaver

Spit up

Splurge

Spray a jet

Spray puree

Spray the weeds

Spue

Swan


TTTTT


Take the shortcut out

Take your groceries for a swim

Talk to God on the big white telephone

Talk to Ralph on the big white telephone

Tango with the toilet

Throw chunks

Throw forth

Throw up

Throw up (one's) bootheels

Throw up (one's) boots and toe nails.

Throw up everything but your toenails

Throw up (one's) toenails

Throw up (one's) toes

Toilet hanging drunk

Throw chunks

Throw it into reverse

Throw the brown cow

Throw up

Throw up (one's) shoes

Throw up (one's) socks

Throw up (one's) toenails

Throw your cookies

Toss the Slack-Mac's

Toss a sidewalk pizza

Toss (one's) cookies

Training to be a supermodel

Tramp

Turn on the tap

Turn up (one's) toes


UUUUU


Ughp

Uncle Dick (Cockney rhyming slang for sick)

Un-eat

Un-swallow

Up and Out

Upchuck

Upswallow (British)

Url

Urp

Urp your toenails up


VVVVV


Vagabond

Vom (British)

Voment

Vomit

Vomit clear from (one's) toes

Vomit (one's) victuals

Vomit up (one's) toenails

Vommie

Vurp (portmanteau of vomit and burp) 


WWWWW


Wallace and Grommit (cockney slang for vomit) 

Whistle beef

Woof (one's) cookies

Worship the ivory idol

Worship the porcelain god

Worship the porcelain goddess


YYYYY


Yack

Yarf

Yark

Yawn a big bright chunky rainbow

Yawn in Technicolor

Yelling at the ants

Yodel

Yodel groceries

York






NOUN


Acid chowder

Barf

Bile geyser

Chow shower

Chunder

Chunks

Colon explosion in reverse

Disgorgement

Ejecta

Emesis

Esophogeal Eruption

Five finger spray

Gale Force Burp

Gastro geyser

Goulash gush

Gut soup

Horf

Hork

Involuntary personal protein

Liquid burp

Liquid laugh

Liquid scream

Mouth crying

Multicolor yawn

My cousin Ralph

Oral diarrhea

Parbreak

Pavement pizza (British)

Psychedelic yawn

Puke

Puke shooter (burping up a bubble of puke) 

Regurgitation

Reverse defecation

Reverse diarrhea

Reverse peristalsis

Rocket launch

Round-trip meal ticket

Salad shooter

Sick

Sidewalk pizza

Spew

Street pizza

Tactical chunder (a well-timed vomit) 

Technicolor yawn (British)

The big spit

Three D (3-D) Burp

Throw up

Upchuck

Vomit

Vomita

Vomition

Vomitus

Wet burp (a burp that brings up a little vomit)

Yark


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"GETTING HEALTHY" SYNONYMS & EUPHEMISMS

 A

  • Advancing health
  • Ameliorating disease/health
  • Ameliorating illness
  • Amelioration

B

  • Bad health improving
  • Bad health resolving
  • Better and better
  • Bettering oneself
  • Becoming healthier
  • Bouncing back
  • Bounding back
  • Breathing new life into
  • Building back up
  • Building health back (up) 
  • Building up strength

C

  • Clearing up
  • Coming along
  • Coming around
  • Coming back
  • Coming through
  • Continuing to improve
  • Convalescing

D

  • Dissolving disease
  • Doing better

E

  • Eradicating illness

F

  • Feeling better
  • Feeling (like) yourself again
  • Feeling fitter
  • Feeling perkier
  • Feeling spryer
  • Fitter
  • Forging ahead

G

  • Gaining ground
  • Getting a foothold on health
  • Getting a hold of yourself
  • Getting a new lease on life
  • Getting back in(to) peak condition
  • Getting back in the pink
  • Getting back in(to) trim
  • Getting back on your feet
  • Getting back to health
  • Getting back to normal
  • Getting better
  • Getting fitter
  • Getting healed
  • Getting healthy
  • Getting in(to) proper trim
  • Getting in(to) trim
  • Getting over
  • Getting over the hump
  • Getting peppier
  • Getting sounder
  • Getting spryer
  • Getting stronger
  • Getting through
  • Getting up to snuff
  • Getting your health back
  • Getting your strength back
  • Getting well

H

  • Hardier
  • Healing
  • Healing nicely
  • Healing up
  • Healing up nicely
  • Healthier
  • Heartier

I

  • Illness improving
  • Illness resolving
  • Improved
  • Improving
  • Improving day by day
  • Improving health
  • Improving health outcome
  • Improving health outlook
  • Improving health prognosis
  • Improving health status
  • Increasing health
  • Increasing health outcome
  • Increasing health outlook

J

  • Jumping back into health

K

  • Kicking back into gear
  • Kicking the habit

L

  • Less bad
  • Less ill
  • Looking up

M

  • Making a comeback
  • Making a recovery
  • Making headway
  • Making progress
  • Mending
  • Mending bones
  • Mending mind and bod

N

  • Nursing back to health

O

  • Off the critical list
  • On the comeback trail
  • On the mend
  • On the road to recovery
  • On the upswing
  • Out of danger
  • Out of the woods
  • Outlook favorable
  • Outlook improving
  • Over the hump
  • Overcoming
  • Overcoming adverse health

P

  • Pepping up
  • Perking up
  • Picking up
  • Prognosis is improving
  • Progressing
  • Progressing at a good pace
  • Progressing better than expected 
  • Progressing nicely
  • Progressing satisfactorily 
  • Progressing well
  • Pulling out of it
  • Pulling round
  • Pulling through
  • Pushing forward

Q

  • Quick to improve
  • Quickening the pace of progres

R

  • Rallying
  • Rebounding
  • Rebounding back (in)to health
  • Recovering
  • Recouping
  • Recuperating
  • Regaining your form
  • Regaining your health
  • Regenerating
  • Rehabbing
  • Rehabilitating
  • Rejoin the living
  • Rejoining the human race
  • Rejuvenating
  • Remediating
  • Renewing
  • Resolving illness
  • Responding to treatment
  • Restoring form
  • Restoring health
  • Resuscitating
  • Returning to form
  • Returning to health
  • Reversing course for the better
  • Revitalizing
  • Revivifying
  • Reviving

S

  • Shaping up
  • Showing improvement
  • Sickness improving
  • Sickness resolving
  • Snapping back
  • Snapping out of it
  • Sounder
  • Speeding to recover
  • Springing back
  • Springing back (in)to health
  • Starting to look up
  • Strengthening
  • Stronger

T

  • Taking a turn for the better
  • Through the woods
  • Turning around
  • Turning the corner

U

  • Upgraded medical condition
  • Upgraded medical status
  • Upgraded outlook
  • Upswinging

V

  • Vital signs improving
  • Vivify
  • Vivifying

W

  • Weather(ing) the storm

Y

  • Yearning for health

Z

  • Zipping back to health

"Crazy" Synonyms AND Euphemisms

AAAAA

Aberrant

Addlebrained

Addled

Addlepated

Amok

Amuck

Anomalous

As daft as a brush

Away with the fairies


BBBBB

Balmy

Bananas

Barking

Barking mad

Barmy

Bar Mystery

Bat's

Bat's in the belfry

Batty

Bedlam

Berserk

Bizarre

Bizarro

Bonkers

Brainsick

Buggy

Bushed


CCCCC

Capricious

Certifiable

Crackbrained

Cracked

Crackers

Crackpot

Crank

Crazed

Crazy

Crazy as a loon

Cuckoo


DDDDD

Daffy

Daft

Delirious

Demented

Derailed

Deranged

Deviant

Dingbat

Disordered

Distracted

Distraught

Disturbed

Dotty


EEEEE

Eccentric


FFFFF

Foaming at the mouth

Frantic

Freak

Freaky

Frenzied

Frothing at the mouth

Fruity


GGGGG

Gaga


HHHHH

Haywire

Head case

Hebephrenic

Hysterical


IIIII

Insane

Irrational

Irregular


KKKKK

Kook

Kookie

Kooky


LLLLL

Loco

Loon

Looney

Loony

Loopy

Lunatic


MMMMM

Mad

Mad as a hatter

Mad as a March hare

Madman

Maniac

Maniacal

Manic

Mental

Mentally ill

Mentally irregular

Meshuga

Misfit

Moonstruck


NNNNN

Not all there

Not in one's right mind

Not (quite) right in the head

Not right upstairs

Not the full shilling

Not together

Nut

Nutcase

Nuts

Nutso

Nutsy

Nutter

Nutty

Nutty as a fruitcake


OOOOO

Odd

Oddball

Of unsound mind

Off-center

Off one's head

Off one's nut

Off one's rocker

Off one's trolley

Off the wall

Of unsound mind

One can short of a six-pack

Out of one's mind

Out of one's tree

Over the edge


PPPPP

Peculiar

Porangi

Psycho

Psychopathic

Psychopathological

Psychotic

Puddingheaded


QQQQQ

Quirky


RRRRR

Rabid

Raving

Round the bend


SSSSS

Scatterbrained

Schizoid

Schizzy

Screwball

Screwy

Senseless

Sick

Sick in the head

Sociopathic

Squirrelly

Stark raving mad

Strange


TTTTT

Tetched

Touched


UUUUU

Unbalanced

Unglued

Unhinged

Unreasonable

Unsound

Unstable

Up the pole


WWWWW

wackado

Wackadoodle

Wacko

Wacky

Way out

Weird

Weirdo

Whacky

With a screw loose



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"Rare diseases & ODD Names"

AAAA

  • Aarskog-Scott syndrome 
  • ACDC (Arterial calcification due to deficiency of CD73) 
  • Achalasia syndrome (esophageal aperistalsis) 
  • Alice in wonderland syndrome (Todd's syndrome) 
  • Alien hand syndrome (Dr. Strangelove syndrome) 
  • Alkaptonuria (Black urine disease)
  • Alpha-galactosidase A deficiency (Fabry disease) 
  • Alport syndrome (Hematuria-nephropathy-deafness syndrome) 
  • Ambras syndrome (Werewolf syndrome or (hypertrichosis)
  • Amputee identity disorder (body integrity disorder or apotemnophilia)
  • Amyloidosis
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis [ALS] (Lou Gherig's Disease)
  • Anaphylactoid purpura (Henoch-Schönlein purpura [HSP] )
  • Anencephaly (absence of the upper portion of the fetal brain) 
  • Angelman syndrome (Happy puppet syndrome) 
  • Anorectal pain, chronic (Levator ani syndrome) 
  • Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease (Goodpasture's disease) 
  • Anti-NMDA ( N-methyl-D-aspartate)  receptor encephalitis
  • Aphantasia (the inability to form mental images of objects that are not present) 
  • Apotemnophilia (body integrity or amputee identity disorder)
  • Asherson’s syndrome (Antiphospholipid syndrome [APS]) 
  • Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS)
  • Auto-brewery syndrome (gut fermentation syndrome) 
  • Autoimmune vasculitisn
  • Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD)
  • Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD)


BBBBB

  • Baby wrist (de Quervain's tenosynovitis, washer woman's sprain, oarsman's wrist and golfer's hand) 
  • Berger’s disease (IgA nephropathy) 
  • Black hairy tongue
  • Black urine disease (Alkaptonuria) 
  • Body integrity identity disorder (BIID) (Apotemnophilia or amputee identity disorder)
  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad cow disease)
  • Branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase [BCKD] deficiency (Maple syrup urine disease)
  • Bright's disease (glomerulonephritis) 
  • Brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta) 
  • Broken heart syndrome (stress cardiomyopathy or takotsubo syndrome) 
  • Burning mouth syndrome (BMS)
  • Buschke disease (Scleredema) 
  • Busy lifestyle syndrome (BLS) 


CCCCC

  • Canities subita (Marie Antoinette syndrome)
  • Capgras delusion (imposter syndrome) 
  • Carcinoid syndrome (functioning argentaffinoma) 
  • Cat scratch fever (Bartonella henselae infection) 
  • Chiari malformation  (Arnold-Chiari malformation) 
  • Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome (Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia [HED]) 
  • Chronic focal Encephalitis (Rasmussen's Encephalitis)
  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
  • Chthonophagia (Pica) 
  • Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever)
  • Coital cephalalgia (Primary sex headaches) 
  • Cold urticaria (Familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome [FCAS]) 
  • Colonic pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie's syndrome) 
  • Congenital analgesia (congenital insensitivity to pain)
  • Congenital central hypo ventilation ([CCHS], Ondine"s curse syndrome)
  • Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis ([CIPA], Hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy [HSAN]) 
  • Copper storage disease (Wilson’s disease) 
  • Coprographia (scatophagia) 
  • Coprolalia (excessive and uncontrollable use of foul or obscene language, including words related to feces) 
  • Copropraxia (tic consisting of involuntarily performing obscene or forbidden gestures, or inappropriate touching)
  • Cornu cutaneum (Cutaneous horn) 
  • Cotard's syndrome (Walking corpse syndrome) 
  • Coxsackie Virus A (Hand, foot and mouth disease [HFMD]) 
  • Craniofacial duplication (Diprosopus) 
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
  • Culture shock/psychosis (Jerusalem, Paris, Stendhal syndromes) 
  • Cutaneous horn (cornu cutaneum) 
  • Cyclic vomiting syndrome (Abdominal migraine) 
  • Cyclopia (Cyclocephaly, synophthalmia) 
  • Cystic Fibrosis (CF) 
  • Cystinosis (Cystine storage disease) 


DDDDD

  • Dead butt syndrome (Gluteus medius tendinopathy [GMT]) 
  • De Quervain's tenosynovitis (Baby wrist, washer woman's sprain, oarsman's wrist and golfer's hand)
  • Dermatomyositis (Chronic inflammatory myopathy)
  • Devic's disease (Neuromyelitis optical [NMO] , Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder) 
  • Diprosopus (craniofacial duplication) 
  • Dr. Strangelove syndrome (Alien hand syndrome) 
  • Dropsy (generalized edema) 
  • Dyschronometria (Cerebellar dysfunction in which one cannot accurately estimate the amount of time that has passed) 


EEEEE

  • Eagle syndrome (a calcified stylohyoid ligament or an elongated styloid process) 
  • Ectrodactyly (lobster claw hand or split hand malformation) 
  • Electromagnetic  hypersensitivity (EHS, microwave syndrome)
  • Enteric neuropathy (Intestinal pseudo-obstruction) 
  • Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis ([EGPA] Churg-Strauss syndrome)
  • Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis [EV] (Tree man syndrome) 
  • Erethismus mercurialis (Mad Hatter’s disease) 
  • Exploding head syndrome (Episodic cranial sensory shock, hypnic parasomnia) 


FFFFF

  • Fabry disease (alpha-galactosidase A deficiency) 
  • Face blindness or facial agnosia (Prosopagnosia) 
  • Factor V Quebec (Quebec platelet disorder) 
  • Familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome ([FCAS], familial cold urticaria)
  • Familial hypokalemia - hypomagnesemia (Gitelman syndrome) 
  • Fatal familial insomnia
  • Feet facing backwards
  • Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva ([FOP], Stoneman syndrome)
  • Fields condition
  • Fish odor syndrome (trimethylaminuria)
  • Flesh-eating bacteria (necrotizing fasciitis)
  • Flexor digitorum profundus [FDP] avulsion (Jersey finger, Rugby finger)
  • Florence syndrome (Stendhal syndrome) 
  • Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)
  • Foreign accent syndrome
  • Fragile X syndrome (Martin-Bell syndrome) 
  • Frambesia tropica, thymosis (Yaws) 
  • Fregoli delusion (a delusional misidentification syndrome) 


GGGGG

  • Genital retraction syndrome (Koro)
  • Geographic tongue (benign migratory glossitis) 
  • Giant cell myocarditis, idiopathic (GCM) 
  • Gigantism (Giantism, somatomegaly) 
  • Gitelman syndrome (Familial hypokalemia - hypomagnesemia) 
  • Glomerulonephritis (Bright's disease) 
  • Glossitis, benign migratory (Geographic tongue) 
  • Golfer's hand (de Quervain's tenosynovitis, baby wrist, oarsman's wrist and washer woman's sprain) 
  • Goodpasture's Syndrome (anti-glomerular basement membrane disease)
  • Gourmand syndrome (eating disorder occurring 6-12 months after injury to the frontal lobe) 
  • Granulomatosis with polyangiitis ([GPA], Wegener’s granulomatosis) 
  • Graves' ophthalmopathy (Thyroid eye disease) 
  • Grinch syndrome (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome [POTS]) 
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome (Landry's ascending paralysis) 
  • Gut fermentation syndrome (Auto-brewery syndrome) 


HHHHH

  • Hair pulling disorder (Trichotillomania) 
  • Hallgren syndrome (Usher syndrome) 
  • Hand, foot and mouth disease [HFMD] (Coxsackie Virus type A) 
  • Happy puppet syndrome (Angelman syndrome) 
  • Harlequin ichthyosis (keratosis diffusa fetalis) 
  • Hematuria-nephropathy-deafness syndrome (Alport syndrome) 
  • Hemangiectatic hypertrophy (Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome [KTS]) 
  • Hemispatial neglect (Hemiagnosia) 
  • Hemoglobin M disease (Methemoglobinemia) 
  • Hemolytic uremic syndrome ([HUS], thrombocytopenia and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia associated with distorted erythrocytes) 
  • Henoch-Schönlein purpura ([HSP], anaphylactoid purpura) 
  • Hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy ([HSAN], Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis [CIPA])
  • Highly superior autobiographical memory ([HSAM], Hyperthymesic syndrome) 
  • Hirschsprung’s disease (Congenital megacolon or mega rectum) 
  • Housemaid's knee (prepatellar bursitis) 
  • Huntington's disease (Huntington's chronic progressive hereditary chorea) 
  • Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome (Progeria) 
  • Hydra syndrome (Polymelia) 
  • Hydronephrosis-inverted smile (Ochoa syndrome) 
  • Hyperthymesic syndrome (highly superior autobiographical memory [HSAM]) 
  • Hypertrichosis (Ambras syndrome or Werewolf syndrome) 
  • Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia ([HED], Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome) 


IIIII

  • Ichthyosis, autosomal recessive congenital ([ARCI], Lamellar ichthyosis) 
  • Ichthyosis, Exfoliative (Peeling skin syndrome) 
  • IgA nephropathy (Berger’s disease)
  • Intermittent explosive disorder (rage attacks) 
  • Interstitial nephritis (tubulointerstitial nephritis) 
  • Intestinal pseudo-obstruction (Enteric neuropathy) 


JJJJJ

  • Jersey finger (Rugby finger, flexor digitorum profundus [FDP] avulsion) 
  • Jerusalem syndrome (psychosis characterized by an intense religious theme) 
  • Jumping Frenchmen of Maine (Jumping Frenchman Disorder, characterized by an extreme startle reaction)


KKKKK

  • Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) 
  • Keratosis diffusa fetalis (Harlequin ichthyosis) 
  • Kleine-Levin Syndrome (Sleeping Beauty syndrome) 
  • Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome ([KTS], hemangiectatic hypertrophy) 
  • Koro (Genital retraction syndrome)
  • Kuru (Laughing death) 


LLLLL

  • Lady Windermere syndrome (pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection) 
  • Lamellar ichthyosis (autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis [ARCI]) 
  • Landry's ascending paralysis (Guillain-Barre syndrome) 
  • Laugh syncope (vasovagal syncope) 
  • Laughing death (Kuru) 
  • Levator ani syndrome (chronic anorectal pain) 
  • Lobster claw hand (Ectrodactyly) 
  • Lou Gherig's Disease (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS]) 


MMMMM

  • Mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)
  • Mad Hatter’s disease (erethismus mercurialis) 
  • Maple syrup urine disease (Branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase [BCKD] deficiency) 
  • Marchiafava–Micheli syndrome (Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria [PNH]) 
  • Marie Antoinette syndrome (canities subita)
  • Martin-Bell syndrome (Fragile X syndrome)
  • Martorell syndrome (Occlusive thromboaortopathy, pulseless disease and Takayasu arteritis)
  • Mass hysteria (Mass psychogenic illness [MPI]) 
  • Mastocytosis, cutaneous, generalized eruption (Urticaria pigmentosa) 
  • Megacolon or mega rectum, congenital (Hirschsprung's disease) 
  • Merycism (Rumination disorder) 
  • Mermaid syndrome (sirenomelia) 
  • Methemoglobinemia (Hemoglobin M disease) 
  • Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (Moschcowitz disease, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura [TTP]) 
  • Microwave syndrome (Electromagnetic  hypersensitivity [EHS]) 
  • Minimal change disease of the kidney (MCD) 
  • Ministroke (Transient ischemic attack [TIA]) 
  • Mirror-touch synaesthesia (MTS) 
  • Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
  • Moebius syndrome  (ophthalmoplegia and facial paresis, congenital) 
  • Moersch-Woltman syndrome (Stiff person syndrome) 
  • Morgellons disease
  • Moschcowitz disease  (Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura [TTP]) 
  • Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (Kawasaki disease) 
  • Mucormycosis (Zygomycosis) 
  • Music induced seizures
  • (Musicogenic seizure) 
  • Musical ear syndrome (musical hallucinations or auditory hallucinations) 
  • Myasthenia Gravis (Myasthenia gravis pseudo-paralytica) 
  • Myositis (Inflammatory myopathy) 


NNNNN

  • Necrotizing fasciitis (Flesh-eating bacteria)
  • Nephrotic syndrome (Proteinuria, severe) 
  • Neurofibromatosis (Von Recklinghausen disease) 
  • Neuromyelitis optical (NMO), (Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder or Devic's disease) 


OOOOO

  • Oarsman's wrist (Washer woman's sprain, de Quervain's tenosynovitis, baby wrist and golfer's hand) 
  • Obesity-hypoventilation syndrome [OHS] (Pickwickian syndrome)
  • Occlusive thromboaortopathy (pulseless disease, Takayasu arteritis and Martorell syndrome) 
  • Ochoa syndrome (Hydronephrosis-inverted smile) 
  • Odontoma (an odontome is a benign tumour linked to tooth development) 
  • Ogilvie's syndrome (colonic pseudo-obstruction) 
  • Oliver–McFarlane syndrome (Trichomegaly-retina pigmentary degeneration-dwarfism syndrome) 
  • Omsk hemorrhagic fever (Tick borne virus in Siberia) 
  • Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) 
  • Ondine's curse (Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome [CCHS])
  • Ophthalmoplegia and facial paresis, congenital (Moebius syndrome) 
  • Opitz syndrome (Trigonocephaly)
  • Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) 
  • Ormond's disease (Retroperitoneal fibrosis) 
  • Osgood–Schlatter disease (osteochondrosis of the tibial tubercle) 
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta (Brittle bone disease) 
  • Overwhelming post-splenectomy infection [OPSI], (Overwhelming post-splenectomy sepsis [OPSS])
  • Oxalosis, systemic (Primary hyperoxaluria) 


PPPPP

  • Parasitic twin (vestigial twin) 
  • Paris syndrome (Culture shock, severe) 
  • Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria [PNH], (Marchiafava–Micheli syndrome) 
  • Pediculosis corporis (Vagabond's disease) 
  • Peeling skin syndrome (exfoliative ichthyosis) 
  • Peritonsillar abscess [PTA] (Quinsy) 
  • Periventricular nodular heterotopia (subependymal grey matter heterotopia)
  • Persistent sexual arousal syndrome (Persistent genital arousal disorder [PGAD]) 
  • Pharyngoesophageal diverticulum (Zenker's diverticulum) 
  • Pica (chthonophagia) 
  • Pickwickian syndrome (Obesity-hypoventilation syndrome [OHS])
  • POEMS syndrome (Polyneuropathy,  Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy/edema, Monoclonal-protein, Skin changes) 
  • Polyarteritis nodosa (Kussmaul-Maier disease) 
  • Polycystic kidney disease [(ADPKD) autosomal dominant, (ARPKD) autosomal recessive] 
  • Polymelia (Hydra syndrome) 
  • Polymyositis (inflammatory myopathy)  Porphyria cutanea tarda [PCT] (Vampire disease) 
  • Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome ([POTS], Grinch syndrome) 
  • Prader-Willi syndrome (Labhart–Willi syndrome) 
  • Prepatellar bursitis (Housemaid's knee) 
  • Primary hyperoxaluria [liver] (systemic oxalosis) 
  • Primary sex headaches (coital cephalalgia) 
  • Progeria (Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome) 
  • Prosopagnosia (face blindness or facial agnosia) 
  • Proteinuria, severe (Nephrotic syndrome) 
  • Proteus syndrome (Partial gigantism) 
  • Puerto Rican infant hypotonia syndrome (Qazi–Markouizos syndrome)
  • Pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection (Lady Windermere syndrome) 
  • Pulseless disease (Takayasu arteritis, occlusive thromboaortopathy and Martorell syndrome) 


QQQQQ

  • Q fever (Query fever, Coxiella burneii infection) 
  • Qazi–Markouizos syndrome (Puerto Rican infant hypotonia syndrome)
  • Quebec platelet disorder (Factor V Quebec) 
  • Queensland tick typhus (Rickettsial spotted fever) 
  • Quinsy (Peritonsillar abscess [PTA])


RRRRR

  • Rage attacks (Intermittent explosive disorder) 
  • Rapunzel syndrome (trichobezoar)
  • Rasmussen's encephalitis (chronic focal encephalitis)
  • Raynaud's phenomenon (White finger disease) 
  • Retired husband syndrome
  • Retroperitoneal fibrosis (Ormond's disease) 
  • Rickettsial spotted fever (Queensland tick typhus) 
  • River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) 
  • Rocker bottom foot (Vertical talus) 
  • RPI deficiency (ribose-5 phosphate isomerase)
  • Rumination disorder (merycism) 


SSSSS

  • Scleredema (Buschke disease)
  • Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis) 
  • Short bowel syndrome (Short gut syndrome) 
  • Sirenomelia (Mermaid syndrome) 
  • Situs inversus (Situs transversus or oppositus)
  • Skier's Thumb (injury to the ulnar collateral ligament) 
  • Sleeping Beauty syndrome (also called Kleine-Levin syndrome)
  • Somatomegaly (Giantism, gigantism) 
  • Split hand malformation (Ectrodactyly) 
  • Spun glass hair (Uncombable hair syndrome) 
  • Stendhal syndrome (Florence syndrome) 
  • Stiff person syndrome (Moersch-Woltman syndrome) 
  • Stoneman syndrome (fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive [FOP]) 
  • Stress cardiomyopathy (Broken heart syndrome or takotsubo syndrome) 
  • Subareolar abscess (Zuska's disease) 
  • Subependymal grey matter heterotopia (Periventricular nodular heterotopia) 
  • Sudden unexpected death syndrome (Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome) 
  • Superman syndrome, or super-male syndrome (XYY)
  • Synophthalmia (Cyclopia cyclocephaly) 
  • Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma) 


TTTTT

  • Takotsubo syndrome (Stress cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome) 
  • Takayasu arteritis (pulseless disease, occlusive thromboaortopathy and Martorell syndrome) 
  • Thrombocytopenia and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia associated with distorted erythrocytes (Hemolytic uremic syndrome [HUS]) 
  • Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura [TTP], (Moschcowitz disease, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia) 
  • Thyroid eye disease (Graves' ophthalmopathy) 
  • Tick borne virus in Siberia (Omsk hemorrhagic fever) 
  • Todd's syndrome (Alice in wonderland syndrome) 
  • Transient ischemic attack (TIA),  (Ministroke) 
  • Tree man syndrome (Epidermodysplasia verruciformis [EV]) 
  • Trichobezoar (Rapunzel syndrome) 
  • Trichomegaly-retina pigmentary degeneration-dwarfism syndrome (Oliver–McFarlane syndrome) 
  • Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) 
  • Trigonocephaly (Opitz syndrome) 
  • Trimethylaminuria (Fish odor syndrome)
  • Truman Show delusion (Truman syndrome) 
  • Tubulointerstitial nephritis (Interstitial nephritis) 


UUUUU

  • Uncombable hair syndrome (Spun glass hair) 
  • Urachal cyst
  • Urticaria pigmentosa (generalized eruption of cutaneous mastocytosis) 
  • Usher syndrome (Hallgren syndrome) 
  • Uveitis (Uvea inflammation) 


VVVVV

  • Vagabond's disease (Pediculosis corporis) 
  • Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) 
  • Vampire disease (Porphyria cutanea tarda [PCT]) 
  • Vampire syndrome (xeroderma pigmentosum)
  • Vasovagal syncope (Laugh syncope) 
  • Vertical talus (Rocker bottom foot) 
  • Vestigial twin (Parasitic twin) 
  • Von Recklinghausen disease (neurofibromatosis)
  • Von Willebrand disease


WWWWW

  • Walking corpse syndrome (Cotard's syndrome) 
  • Warburg Thomsen syndrome (Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome) 
  • Washer woman's sprain (de Quervain's tenosynovitis, baby wrist, oarsman's wrist and golfer's hand) 
  • Water allergy (aquagenic urticaria)
  • Wegener’s granulomatosis
  • (Granulomatosis with poly angiitis [GPA]) 
  • Werewolf syndrome (hypertrichosis or Ambras syndrome) 
  • White finger disease (Raynaud's phenomenon) 
  • Wilson’s disease (Copper storage disease) 


XXXXX

  • Xanthinuria (xanthine oxidase deficiency) 
  • Xeroderma pigmentosum ([XP], Vampire syndrome) 
  • Xerophthalmia (Dry eyes from vitamin A deficiency) 


YYYYY

  • Yaws (Frambesia tropica, thymosis)
  • Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome (Warburg Thomsen syndrome) 
  • Yersiniosis (Yersinia enterocolitica) 
  • Yolk sac tumor (endodermal sinus tumor) 


ZZZZZ

  • Zellweger syndrome (cerebrohepatorenal syndrome) 
  • Zenker's diverticulum (pharyngoesophageal diverticulum) 
  • Zieve's syndrome (liver delipidization) 
  • Zika virus
  • Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma) 
  • Zuska's disease (subareolar abscess) 
  • Zygomycosis (Mucormycosis) 

"ARCHAIC MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY"

Ablepsy: Blindness


Abortus Fever: Brucellosis, a disease caught from cattle via milk resulting in a fever


Ague: 1. Any intermittent fever characterised by periods of chills, fevers and sweats 2. flu-like symptoms likely caused by malaria


Amenomania: a higher form of Hypochondriasis, in which the patient, instead of having anxiety about non-existent diseases, denied any imperfection of health, and was not melancholic, but rather cheerful (hence the name of the condition)


American Plague: Yellow Fever


Anascara:  Generalised Dropsy.  See Dropsy


Aphonia:  Laryngitis


Aphthae or Aphthous Fever: see Thrush


Apoplexy: now refers to bleeding within internal organs, but historically meant a death which began with sudden loss of consciousness; covered what we now call heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms


Barrel fever: Alcoholism


Bilious fever: a fever accompanied by nausea, vomiting and diarrhea


Biliousness: Jaundice


Black Death or Black Plague: Bubonic Plague, an infectious fever


Black Dog: Depression


Black fever: acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate


Black Jaundice: Wiel's Disease, a bacterial infection of the liver carried by rats, which can affect farmers and sewage workers


Black Pox: Black Smallpox


Black Vomit: Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or Yellow Fever


Blackwater Fever: dark urine associated with high temperature


Bladder in Throat: Diphtheria


Blood Poisoning: Sepsis or Septicemia


Bloody Flux:  blood in the stools, see Dysentery


Bloody Sweat: Sweating Sickness


Bone Shave: Sciatica


Brain Fever: difficult to make a diagnosis in hindsight, but possibly Meningitis or Encephalitis. Very popular as a plot device with 19th century novelists, who portrayed it as a reaction to a severe emotional shock


Breakbone: Dengue Fever


Bright's Disease:  Glomerulonephritis (kidney inflammation)


Bronchial Catarrh: acute bronchitis


Bronze John: Yellow Fever


Bursten:  Hernia or Rupture


Cachexy: also Cachexia, a wasting syndrome


Caco Gastric: upset stomach


Camp Fever: Typhus; so-called because it was common in military camps with notoriously poor hygiene


Cancrum Otis: an erosive.   ulcer of the cheek and lip resulting from poor hygiene.  It was often seen in young children and could be fatal as it led to gangrene of the facial tissues.  Synonyms: canker, water canker, noma, gangrenous stomatitis, gangrenous ulceration of the mouth


Canine Madness:  Rabies or Hydrophobia


Casopisy: Irregular pulse


Catalepsy:  Seizure or a trance like state


Cataplasm: a poultice


Catarrh:  inflammation of the mucous membranes of the head and throat, with a flow of mucous. Bronchial Catarrh was bronchitis; Suffocative Catarrh was Croup; Urethral Catarrh was Gleet; Vaginal Catarrh was Leukorrhea; Epidemic Catarrh was the same as Influenza.  Synonyms: cold, coryza. Catarrhal Bronchitis is acute bronchitis


Cerebrospinal Fever: see Meningitis


Chalkstones: swelling with pain that probably was caused by Rheumatoid Arthritis or Gout


Change of Life: puberty or menopause


Chilblain: swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold


Child Bed Fever: also known as Puerperal Fever is a form of septicemia caused by lack of hygiene during the delivery of a baby. It was widespread in hospital deliveries in the middle of the 19th century where it was spread by doctors from patient to patient until the importance of good hygiene was finally accepted


Chin Cough:  Whooping Cough or Tussis Convulsiva, mainly a disease of childhood associated with a strange sounding cough which often brings on vomiting. Synonyms: Ching Cough, Pertussis, Tussis Convulsiva. (Tussis means cough; a cough medicine is an antitussive)


Chlorosis:  Anemia from iron deficiency


Cholera Infantum:  a common, non-contagious diarrhea of young children


Clyster: an enema


Cold Plague: Ague which is characterized by chills


Congestive Fever: Malaria


Consumption: Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Another popular illness in Victorian novels


Corruption: general term for infection


Coryza:  a cold.  See also Catarrh


Costiveness:  constipation


Cramp Colic:  Appendicitis


Creeping Paralysis: a term that encompasses Multiple Sclerosis


Crop Sickness: over extended stomach


Cynanche: 1. inflammation of the throat 2. diseases of thev throat


Cynanche Maligna: putrid sore throat


Cynanche Parotidaea: Mumps


Cynanche Pharyngaea: inflammation of the pharynx (throat) 


Cynanche Tonsillaris: inflammatory sore throat; see Quinsy


Cynanche Trachealis: see Croup


Day Fever: fever lasting one day; Sweating S ickness


Deplumation: tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss  


Diacodion: medicine made from poppies and therefore containing morphine or related substances


Diaphragmatitis: inflammation of the diaphragm


Diary Fever: A fever that lasts one day


Dipsomania: an uncontrollable craving for alcohol


Distemper: a disease, especially an infectious one


Dock Fever: Yellow Fever


Domestic Malady: depression or another sort of emotional breakdown


Double Personality: Manic Depressive (Bipolar) 


Dropsy: 1. Edema – abnormal swelling of the body, often caused by kidney or heart disease 2. swelling caused by fluid retention


Dropsy of the brain: Encephalitis


Dry Bellyache: Lead Poisoning


Dyscrasy: an abnormal body condition


Dysorexy: reduced appetite due to mucous and blood


Dyspepsia:  acid indigestion or heartburn


Ecstasy: a form of Catalepsy characterized by loss of reason


Edema Nephrosis: swelling of tissues


Eel Thing: Erysipelas


Effluvia:  exhalations.  In the mid 19th century, they were called "Vapours".  Among the contagious Effluvia were rubeola (measles)


Elephantiasis: a form of Leprosy


Enteric Fever:  see Typhoid Fever


Falling Sickness: Epilepsy


Fits: sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity


Flux: an excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea


Flux of Humour: Circulation


French Pox: Syphilis


Frigid: low sex drive, libido


Gaol (Jail) Fever: Typhus


G.P.I. : General Paralysis of the Insane. The third and final stage of Syphilis which may not occur until many years after the primary phase


Gathering: an accumulation of pus 


Glandular Fever: Mononucleosis


Gleet:  see Catarrh


Gravel:  a disease characterised by small stones which are formed in the kidneys


Great Pox: Syphilis; it became something of a political football: the English, Poles, Italians and Germans called Syphilis the ‘French Disease,’ the French called it the ‘Italian Disease,’ the Dutch called it the ‘Spanish Disease,’ the Russians called it the ‘Polish Disease,’ and the Turks called it the ‘Christian Disease’


Green Fever or    Green Sickness: Anemia


Grip, Gripe or Grippe: Influenza


Grocer's Itch: skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour


Headmouldshot:  this is when the sutures of the skull, generally the coronal Sutures , have their edges overlap one another; which is frequent in infants and can give rise to convulsions and death. Such injury would result from difficulties in childbirth


Heart Sickness: condition caused by loss of salt from the body


Hectic Fever:  recurring fever with sweating, chills, and flushing


Hip Gout:  Osteomylitis


Horrors: 1. Delirium Tremens, 2. a shuddering or shivering as symptomatic of a fever, or 3. a fit of depression or fright as occurs with mental delirium


Hospital Fever:  see Typhus


Hydrophobia: literally a fear of water which is a symptom of Rabies


Hysteritis: inflammation of the womb


Icterus:  see Jaundice


Idiot: a profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less. Along with terms like moron, imbecile, and cretin, its use to describe people with mental disabilities is considered archaic and offensive


Idiot Savant: developmentally delayed and exceptionally talented; often inaccurately referred to as Autistic


Imbecile: formerly used by psychiatrists to denote a category of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability, as well as a type of criminal. The term imbecile quickly passed into vernacular usage as a derogatory term


Imposthume: a collection of purulent matter in a bag or cyst


Inanition:  a decline from inadequate nourishment; starvation


Infantile Paralysis: Poliomyelitis


Jail Fever: Typhus


Keuchhusten: Whooping Cough


King’s Evil: see Scrofula


Leprosy: Hansen's Disease


Livergrown:  having a great liver (possibly as a result of high alcohol consumption)


Lockjaw:  see Tetanus


Locomotor Ataxia: a movement disorder caused by syphilitic infection of the spinal cord. Synonym: Tabes Dorsalis


Long Sickness: Tuberculosis


Lues:  see Syphilis


Lues Venera:  venereal disease


Lumbago: back pain


Lung fever: Pneumonia


Lung Sickness: Tuberculosis (Consumption) 


Lupus Vulgaris: A chronic tubercular infection of the skin involving soft yellow swellings, ulcers and abscesses. Synonym: common Lupus


Lying In: refers to the maternal period around childbirth. The process of child birth is commonly called parturition


Mad Cow Disease: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease


Malignant fever:  see Typhus


Malignant Sore Throat: Diphtheria


Mania: Insanity


Mania Errabunda or Restless Madness is the tendency of senile people (usually elderly) to wander aimlessly away from home


Marasmus:  progressive emaciation caused by malnutrition in young children


Megrim: severe headache, often limited to one side of the head


Melancholia: severe Depression


Membranous Croup:  hoarse cough, Diphtheria


Metritis: Inflammation of the uterus or purulent vaginal discharge


Miasma: "Poisonous Vapours" (bad smells) that were believed to spread infection


Miliary Fever: small pustules or vesicles on the skin, so called as they resemble millet seed


Milk Fever: from drinking infected milk, such as Undulant Fever or Brucellosis


Milk Leg: thrombosis of veins in the legs caused by lying in bed too long after childbirth. It leads to ulceration of the skin. Synonyms: White Leg, Phlegmasia Alba Dolens


Milk Sickness: disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds


Mormal:  Gangrene


Morphew: Scurvy blisters on the body


Mortification: Gangrene


Myelitis: literally an inflammation of a nerve


Naples Disease: another name for Syphilis


Natural Decay: death through old age is frequently shown on death certificates as Natural Decay. Synonym: Senile Decay


Nervous Prostration:mm extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities


Organotherapy: a technique that makes use of extracts derived from animal or human tissues to treat medical conditions


Palsy: problems with muscle control, such as tremors or paralysis


Paristhmitis:  see Quinsy


Paroxysm: Convulsion


Petechial Fever:  see Typhus


Phlegmasia: general term for inflammation


Phrenitis: an inflammation of the brain


Phthiriasis: Lice infestation


Phthisis Chronic: wasting away or a name for Tuberculosis


Pink Disease: disease of teething infants due to mercury poisoning from teething powders


Plague: any infectious disease with a high mortality rate, although it often refers specifically to Bubonic Plague


Pox: Syphilis, Eel Thing; also referred to any unknown disease which caused sores to appear on the body


Potters' Asthma: workers in the pottery industry of Staffordshire were exposed to dust from dried clay and in some cases from ground flints and bone used as clay additives. They developed an inflammation of the lung similar to that of miners with silicosis


Potts Disease:  Tuberculosis of the spine  leading to degeneration of the vertebrae


Puerperal Exhaustion: death due to childbirth


Puerperal Fever: elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant


Puking Fever: Milk Sickness


Purples:  spots of a livid color, which break out in malignant fevers


Putrid Fever: Diphtheria


Quincy or Quinsy:  Tonsillitis


Remitting Fever: Malaria


Riggs' Disease: also known as Pyorrhea of a toothsocket or Gingivitis Expulsiva. It is a historical term for Periodontitis (gum disease)


Remitting fever:  Malaria also called the Ague


Retarded: developmentally or cognitively delayed


Rising of the Lights:  Croup - any obstructive condition of the larynx or trachea (windpipe), characterized by a hoarse, barking cough and difficult breathing, occurring chiefly in infants and children


Rheumatismus: Rheumatism


Rose Cold: Hay Fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy


Sanguineous crust: scab


Scirrhous: cancerous tumors


Scotomy: dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight


Screws: Rheumatism


Scrivener’s Palsy: writer’s cramp


Scrofula: Primary Tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands. Also known as the King’s Evil, due to the old belief that the monarch was able to cure Scrofula victims. Sufferers would hang around the royal residence waiting for the king or queen to bless them


Scrumpox: Impetigo


Selenoplexia: also called Selenoplegia, Selenoplege, and Moonstroke. from the Greek words selene, 'the moon', and plexis, 'stroke'. It is a medical category that included conditions supposedly caused by the rays of the moon


Ship Fever: Typhus


Sloes: Milk Sickness


Softening of the Brain:  Senility or General Paralysis of the Insane (G. P. I.) which is tertiary Syphilis. Also used for cerebral hemorrhage/stroke


Sore Throat Distemper: Diphtheria or Quinsy


Splenitits: inflammation of the Spleen


Spotted Fever:- Typhus or Meningitis


Spontaneous Human Combustion: the burning of  a living human body without an apparent external source of ignition. Featured in Charles Dickens’ 'Bleak House' where the alcoholic Mr. Krook dies of it


Sprue: tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat


St. Anthony's Fire: see Erysipelas


St. Vitus Dance: a twitching of the limbs consequent on streptococcal infections also known as Chorea Sancti Viti. Also refers to 

Huntington's Chorea


Stranger's Fever: Yellow Fever


Strangury:  restricted urine flow.  A difficulty of urine attended with pain.  This could have included bladder stones and enlargement of the prostate.  See also gravel


Strophulus: prickly heat


Sudor Anglicus: Sweating Sickness


Summer complaint:  see Cholera Infantum also dysentery or baby diarrhea caused by spoiled milk


Suppurating: producing pus


Surfet/Surfeit: Vomiting from over-eating


Swamp Sickness: Malaria


Sweating Sickness: infectious and often fatal disease affecting England in the 15th century


Synochus: fever


Tabes Dorsalis: tubercular infection of the spine


Tabes Mesenterica: tubercular infection of the lymph glands in the abdomen


Teeth: death of an infant when teething; symptoms included fretfulnes, convulsions, diarrhea, and painful and swollen gums. Children appear to have been more susceptible to infection during this time, although malnutrition from being fed watered milk has also been suggested as a cause


The Shakes: Parkinson's Disease


Trench Fever: a louse borne infection characterised by headaches, inflamed eyes, skin rashes and pains in the legs.  The infective agent is Rickettsia Quintana


Tussis Convulsiva: Whooping Cough


Tympany: A swelling or tumor


Typhoid Fever:  an infectious disease producing intestinal inflammation and ulceration. It was usually encountered in the summer months.   It is caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhosa.  The name came from the disease's similarity to Typhus (see below). Synonym: Enteric Fever


Undulant Fever: Brucellosis, an infectious fever contracted from contaminated milk


Vapours (or Vapors): A mental, psychical, or physical state, such as hysteria, mania, clinical depression, bipolar disorder, lightheadedness, fainting, flush, withdrawal syndrome, mood swings, or PMS in which a sufferer loses mental focus


Venesection:  phlebotomy


Viper's Dance: St. Vitus Dance


Went under: had anesthesia


White Leg: see Milk Leg


White Swelling: Tuberculosis of the bone


Winter Fever:  see pneumonia


Womb Fever: Infection of the uterus.


Wool Sorters' Disease: Anthrax, a disease formerly found in farm animals that could be transmitted to man. Now rare in developed countries but common in central Asia


Worm Fever: may have been used to indicate a fever or enteritis during which worms were passed in the feces. It is given as a cause of death of children in the early 19th century


Worm Fit: convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea


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