DICTIONARIES: OLD MEDICAL TERMS
- 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.
