AILMENTS & DISEASES

AILMENTS & 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 difficulty to see objects in right way.

24.  Onchocerciasis:  It is known as river blindness and Robles' Disease, 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.  Rabies: An infectious disease which causes madness in dogs, wolves and passes to man from animal bites.

29.  Rash: A set of spots on the face/body.

30.  Small-pox: A serious disease marked by spots on the face, which leaves permanent marks.

31.  Syphilis: It is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochaetal bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.

32.  Thrombopenia : Disease in blood platelet count.

33.  Tuberculosis: A serious disease affecting chiefly the lungs.

34.  Vomiting: A feeling of nausea precedes vomiting. This reflex action is controlled by vomiting centre in the medulla.

35.  Whooping cough: A serious disease caught especially by children, in which the sufferer coughs noisily.

36.  Xeropthalmia: A disease is due to deficiency of vitamin-A. It may be a cause of dry cornea and blindness.

37.  Yellow fever: An acute systemic (body wide) illness caused by a virus called a Flavivirus.

38.  Zoonosis:  Is any infectious disease that can be transmitted from non-human animals, both wild and domestic, to humans or from humans to non-human animals.