Anemia (1) - too few red
blood cells in the bloodstream, resulting in insufficient oxygen
to tissues and organs.
Arthritis (2) - an inflammatory condition that affects
joints. Can be infective, autoimmune, traumatic in origin.
Asthma (2) - a disease process that is characterized
by paradoxical narrowing of the bronchi (lung passageways) making
breathing difficult. Symptoms include wheezing, difficulty breathing
(particularly exhaling air) and tightness in the chest.
Blood Coagulant (1) - exogenous substances used
to promote blood coagulation.
Bodyache (12) - pain associated to any part of the body.
Burn (1) - to injure by fire or heat; to change destructively
some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or
heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to
sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the
sun.
Canker sore (1) - a type of benign mouth ulcer
often caused by injury to the mucosal lining of the oral cavity,
viral infection or vitamin deficiency.
Chest pain (3) - there are many causes of chest
pain. One is angina which results from inadequate oxygen supply
to the heart muscle. Angina can be caused by coronary artery
disease or spasm of the coronary arteries. Chest pain can also
be due to a heart attack (coronary occlusion) and other important
diseases.
Common cold (9) - a viral upper respiratory tract
infection. A contagious illness caused by a number of different
types of viruses. Because of the great number of viruses that
can cause a cold, the body never builds up resistance (immune)
against all of them.
Diarrhoea (3) - the abnormal frequency and liquidity
of faecal discharges, the frequent and profuse discharge of
loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus;
a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
Dysentery (7) - any of various disorders marked by inflammation
of the intestines, especially of the colon and attended by pain
in the abdomen, tenesmus and frequent stools containing blood
and mucus. Causes include chemical irritants, bacteria, protozoa
or parasitic worms.
Eczema (1) - a pruritic papulovesicular dermatitis occurring
as a reaction to many endogenous and exogenous agents.
Eyeache (3) - pain associated to any part of the eye.
Fever (24) - a rise in body temperature above normal
usually as a natural response to infection. Typically an oral
temperature greater than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit constitutes
a fever.
Headache (10) - an often familial symptom complex of
periodic attacks of vascular headache, usually temporal and
unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability,
nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia,
attacks are preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries,
usually with resultant prodromal sensory (especially ocular)
symptoms and commence with the vasodilation that follows.
Inflammation (3) - a localized protective response elicited
by injury or destruction of tissues, which serves to destroy,
dilute or wall off (sequester) both the injurious agent and
the injured tissue.
Intestinal worms (3) - worms from the stomach
and intestines.
Itching (2) - medically known as pruritis, can result
from drug reaction, food allergy, kidney or liver disease, cancers,
parasites, aging or dry skin, contact skin reaction, such as
poison ivy, and for unknown reasons.
Kidney stones (1) - the presence of calculi in
the kidney or collecting system.
Lower extremity pain (2) - pain associated
with the legs, sometimes applied specifically to the feet.
Menstruation pain (1) - lower abdominal and pelvic
pain that is associated with menses, the cyclic, physiologic
discharge through the vagina of blood and mucosal tissues from
the non-pregnant uterus, it is under hormonal control and normally
recurs, usually at approximately four week intervals, in the
absence of pregnancy during the reproductive period (puberty
through menopause) of the female of the human and a few species
of primates. It is the culmination of the menstrual cycle. Recurrent
monthly menstrual pains (not explained by other causes) are
often referred to as primary dysmenorrhoea.
Mouth ulcer (1) - circular painful ulcers with
a surrounding red margin that are usually 1-2mm in diameter
(can be up to 1.0 cm). Heal in 1-2 weeks but can be recurrent.
Often caused by a virus in the Herpes family.
Rheumatism (5) - a general disease characterized by painful,
often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints
and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs,
as the heart.
Skin injury (4) - a cut, incision, or injury to the outer
layer of the skin.
Skin problems (3) - a dermatological state of the skin,
resulting in discoloration, exfoliation due to infection, allergy,
or poor nutrition.
Snakebite (3) - a bite by a snake. The condition of having
been bitten by a venomous snake, characterized by stinging pain
at the wound puncture. The venom injected at the site of the
bite is capable of producing a deleterious effect on the blood
or on the nervous system.
Stomachache (16) - pain in the abdomen, including the
intestines, and stomach.
Teething pain (2) - pain in a tooth or in the
teeth generally of an infant or young child.
Tonic (2) - a class of medicinal preparations believed
to have the power of restoring normal tone to tissue.
Toothache (4) - pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
Reference - The On-line
Medical Dictionary is © Academic Medical Publishing
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