Physical Conditions
- abnormalcy
- an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
- tonic epilepsy
- epilepsy in which the body is rigid during the seizure
- pulmonary stenosis
- abnormal narrowing of the opening into the pulmonary artery from the right ventricle
- chestnut-bark disease
- a disease of American chestnut trees
- scarlatina
- an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash
- scaphocephaly
- congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow; frequently accompanied by mental retardation
- tyrosinemia
- autosomal recessive defect in tyrosine metabolism resulting in liver and kidney disturbances and mental retardation
- sclerotium disease
- plant disease cause by fungi of the genus Sclerotium; also one in which sclerotia are formed
- erythroblastosis fetalis
- severe anemia in newborn babies; the result of Rh incompatibility between maternal and fetal blood; typically occurs when the child of an Rh-negative mother inherits Rh-positive blood from the father; can be diagnosed before birth by amniocentesis
- scorch
- a surface burn
- albinism
- the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair
- pestilence
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- hungriness
- a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation
- Legionnaires' disease
- acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough
- disease
- an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
- NSU
- inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause
- immunosuppression
- lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer)
- dysarthria
- impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature
- pachycheilia
- an abnormal thickness of the lips
- functional disorder
- disorder showing symptoms for which no physiological or anatomical cause can be identified
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