Medical Terms

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Blattern smallpox
Bräune diphtheria
Dropsy congestive heart failure (CHF)
Durchfall diarrhea
Eiterbeule abscess
Epilepsie epilepsy
Fäule cancer
Fieber fever
Fleckfieber spotted fever, typhus
Fraisen convulsions, epilepsy, seizures, spasms
Gelbsucht jaundice
Geschwulst tumor
Geschwür boil, ulcer, abscess
Gicht gout, arthritis
hitziges Fieber burning fever, high fever
Keuchhusten whooping cough
Kindbettfieber childbed fever
Krämpfe cramps, convulsions
Krankheit disease, sickness
Krebs cancer
Kropf goiter
Lungenentzündung pneumonia
Lungenschwindsucht consumption, tuberculosis
Masern measles
Pocken smallpox
Rheuma rheumatism
Ruhr dysentery
Scharlachfieber scarlet fever
Schlaganfall stroke
Schwäche weakness
Schwindsucht consumption
Sucht sickness, mania, rage
Tuberkulose tuberculosis
Tumor tumor
Wassersucht edema, dropsy
Windpocken chicken pox
zehrendes Fieber consumptive fever
Zehrung consumption

 

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