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Cardiology

• "High Blood" means high blood pressure
• "Heart Dropsy" means Congestive Heart Failure
• "I had a coronary" means myocardial infarction (MI, heart attack)

Feeling Bad

• "Afflicted" means has an illness 
• "Down with" an ailment means sick with an illness
• "Indisposed" means slightly ill
• "Feeling puny" means feeling run-down
• "Feeling poorly" means not well
• "Feeling under the weather" means feeling ill
• "Sicker than a dawg" means real sick and probably vomiting

                    (Interestingly, the origin of this expression is from the Bible.

                    In the Bible, Proverb 26:11 states, “As a dog returneth to his

                    vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly,” and in 2 Peter 2:22, it

                    states, “The dog is turned to his own vomit again")

• "Low sick" means very ill
• "Going downhill fast" means getting sicker by the minute
• "I'd have to feel better to die" (self-explanatory)
• "I'm fixin' to die" means "I feel really bad"
• "I’m so sick I’d have to get better to die" (self explanatory)
• "I'm so sick I look like the north end of a southbound pig" (self-explanatory)
• " 'Ett'(sic) up with" means covered in a rash or consumed with a disease, such as cancer

Feeling Tired

• "Wore slap out" means too tired to move
• "Plumb tired" means "wore slap out"
• "I feel like I've been chewed up and spit out" (self-explanatory)

Feeling Well

• "Fit as a fiddle" means in good shape or healthy
• "Fine as frog's hair split four ways" means feeling great!!!

Gastrointestinal

• My stomach is "all tore up" means diarrhea 
• "Running off" means "all tore up"
• My bowels are "locked up" means constipation
• All "poned up" means abdominal swelling
• "Breadbasket" means stomach/abdomen
• "Pickled liver" means alcoholic liver disease

General

• "Laid up" means an injury that keeps a person in bed or homebound
• "You need to put some meat back on your bones" means you need to regain some weight
• "It got me" means "I got hurt by it" (like a tree you just cut down falling on top of you)

Hematology

• "Low blood" means anemia

Infectious Disease

• "Bad blood" means syphilis
• "Rising" means localized swelling or abscess
• "Draw it out" means draw the pus out

Neurology

• "Sick headache" means migraine headache
• "I took a powder/BC/Goody's" means powdered aspirin
• "apoplexy" means a cerebrovascular accident ("stroke")

Orthopedics

• "Stove up" means stiff in the joints or back
• I've got a "hitch" in my giddy-up" means pain or soreness, often in the back, that hinders activity

Psychiatry

• I'm all "tore up" means upset
• "Got the vapours" is an old expression for nervous/hysterical
• "Out of kilter" means not right
• "A quart low" means dumb
• "He's only got one oar in the water" means stupid
• "If brains were leather, he wouldn't have enough to saddle a junebug" means really stupid (a junebug is a large beetle)
• "Touched in the head" means mentally ill
• "Ain't right" means not clearly thinking (or worse)

Sympathy Expressions

• "Bless your heart"
• "You poor thing"
• "I'm fixin' to bring you a casserole"

Urological/Gynecological

• Trouble with my "nature" means erectile dysfunction
• Trouble with my "family business" means erectile dysfunction
• "In the family way" means pregnant