Ailments
and Diseases
1. Anemia : Lack of enough blood,
causing paleness.
2. Anorexia : Loss of
appetite.
3. Arthritis : A
disease causing pain and swelling in the joints of the body.
4. Beriberi : It is a
nervous system ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine (Vitamin B1) in the
diet.
5. Chickenpox : A
disease especially caught by children that is marked by a slight fever and
spots on the skin.
6. Coma : Deep unnatural state like
sleep caused by illness, or injury especially to the brain.
7. Diarrhea : An
illness in which the bowels are emptied too often and in a liquid form.
8. Diphtheria : A serious
infectious disease of the throat.
9. Epilepsy : A
disorder of the nervous system which causes fits and unconsciousness.
10. Erythropoietin : Hormone
secreted by the juxta-glomerular cells of the kidneys.
11. Flatus : It is accumulation of
gases in gastro-intestinal tract which are expelled through anus producing
characteristic sound.
12. Flue : An illness like the bad cold but
more serious.
13. Gastric : Pain in the abdomen,
excessive burping, puking or vomiting, nausea and difficulty in releasing gas
is the symptoms of gastric.
14. Hemorrhage : Heavy
bleeding.
15. Hernia : It is protrusion of the
intestine into inguinal canal and may extend into scrotal sac.
16. Indigestion :
Indigestion is the most often pronounced ailment of modern times branching out
into varied abdominal diseases.
17. Jaundice : Bile pigments like
bilirubin increase in blood causing yellowness in skin and eyes. Liver is also
affected in this disorder.
18. Kala-azar : A chronic and potentially
fatal parasitic disease of the viscera due to infection by the parasite called
Leishmania donovani.
19. Leprosy : It is caused by
mycobacterium leprae which was discovered by Hansen.
20. Measles : An infectious disease,
marked by fever and small red spots that cover the whole body.
21. Migraine : A severe and frequently
occurring headache, usually on one side of the head.
22. Mumps : An infectious disease,
especially among children, with painful swellings in the neck.
23. Night blindness : A
disease in which it is difficult to see objects in right way.
24. Onchocerciasis : It is
known as river blindness and Robles’ Disease. It is a parasitic disease caused
by infection with the nematode Onchocerca volvulus.
25. Plague : It is caused by yersinia
pestis a deadly bacterium. It goes from rat to rat through the rat fleas.
26. Pneumonia : A serious illness with
inflammation of one or both lungs.
27. Poliomyelitis : An
infectious disease caused by a virus, often resulting in physical disability
among children.
28. Q fever: It is a disease caused by
infection with Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium that affects humans and other
animals.
29. Rabies : An infectious disease
which causes madness in dogs, wolves and passes to man from animal bites.
30. Rash : A set of spots on the face/body.
31. Small-pox : A serious disease marked
by spots on the face, which leaves permanent marks.
32. Syphilis : It is a sexually
transmitted disease caused by the spirochaetal bacterium, treponema pallidum
subspecies pallidum.
33. Thrombopenia : Disease
in blood platelet count.
34. Tuberculosis : A
serious disease affecting chiefly the lungs.
35. Uniparental disomy (UPD): It occurs
when a person receives two copies of a chromosome or of part of a chromosome,
from one parent and no copies from the other parent.
36. Vomiting : A feeling of nausea
precedes vomiting. This reflex action is controlled by vomiting centre in the
medulla.
37. Whooping cough : A
serious disease caught especially by children, in which the sufferer coughs
noisily.
38. Xeropthalmia : A disease
is due to deficiency of vitamin-A. It may be a cause of dry cornea and
blindness.
39. Yellow fever : An acute
systemic (body wide) illness caused by a virus called Flavivirus.
40. Zoonosis : Any infectious disease
that can be transmitted from non-human animals, both wild and domestic, to
humans or from humans to non-human animals.
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