"D" English List with Definitions

Dancing Mania	St. Vitus' Dance
Dancing Plague	St. Vitus' Dance
Dandy Fever	Dengue
Debility / Debilitas	The state of being weak or feeble; infirmity. [Heritage]
Debility from Old Age	Senility
Debility, General	Senility
Debility, Senile	Senility
Decay	Decline
Decline	Tabes. A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline. --Dunglison. [Webster1913]
Decrepitude / Decrepitus	The quality or condition of being weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use. [Heritage]
Deformity	An affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed. [Wordnet]
Dehydrated	Suffering from excessive loss of water from the body; "fever resulted from becoming dehydrated". [Wordnet]
Delhi Boil	Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.
Delirium / Delirious	State of violent mental agitation. [Wordnet]
Dementia	Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy. [Webster1913]
Dementia Apoplectica	Alteration and diminution of the mental faculties due to cerebral lesions, such as hemorrhage, softening, or tumors; typical in most cases of softening of the brain. [Appleton 1904]
Dementia Praecox	Schizophrenia
Dengue /Fever	A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also {breakbone fever}. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal. Note: This disease, when it first appeared in the British West India Islands, was called the dandy fever, from the stiffness and constraint which it grave to the limbs and body. The Spaniards of the neighboring islands mistook the term for their word dengue, denoting prudery, which might also well express stiffness, and hence the term dengue became, as last, the name of the disease. --Tully. [Webster1913]
Deplumation	A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. [Webster]
Depression	A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention (syn: depressive disorder, clinical depression) [Wordnet]
Derangement	Insanity
Derbyshire Neck	Bronchocele
Diabetes	A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. [Webster]
Diabetes Insipidus	The form of diabetes in which the urine contains no abnormal constituent. [Webster]
Diabetes Mellitus	That form of diabetes in which the urine contains saccharine matter. [Webster]
Diabetes, Bronze	A genetic disease in which the body takes in too much iron from food, this causes excess iron to be deposited in the liver and heart and other organs, eventually leading to organ failure and death. [CancerWEB]
Diabetes, Sugar	Diabetes Mellitus
Diarrhea	Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder. [Heritage]
Diarrhea, Camp	Epidemic Typhus
Diary Fever	Fever that lasts only one day; Ephemera. [Dunglison1868]
Diathesis	A hereditary predisposition of the body to a disease, a group of diseases, an allergy, or another disorder. [Heritage]
Diphtheria / Diphtheritis	Cynanche Maligna. A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. [Webster1913] Information Card from the CDC
Disability	The condition of being disabled; incapacity; Weakness. [Heritage]
Disease	A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms. [Heritage]
Disease, Heart	A structural or functional abnormality of the heart, or of the blood vessels supplying the heart, that impairs its normal functioning. [Heritage]
Disease, Hip	White Swelling
Disease, Hip Joint	White Swelling
Disease, Liver	Acholia
Dhobi Itch	Fungal infection attacking moist parts of the body.
Down's Syndrome	A congenital disorder, caused by the presence of an extra 21st chromosome, in which the affected person has mild to moderate mental retardation, short stature, and a flattened facial profile. Also called trisomy 21. [Heritage]
Drop Heart	Cardioptosis
Dropsy	Archaic word for Edema. Abnormal accumulation of fluid in cells, tissues, or cavities of the body. [CivilWarMed]
Dropsy, Abdominal	Ascites
Dropsy, Belly	Ascites
Dropsy, Bladder	A somewhat rare condition which may follow the obliteration of the cystic duct; due to distention of the gall bladder with the secretion of the mucous glands and with epithelium. [Appleton1904]
Dropsy, Bowels	Ascites
Dropsy, Brain	Hydrocephalus
Dropsy, Cardiac	Oedema due to heart failure. [CancerWEB]
Dropsy, Chest	Hydrothorax
Dropsy, Eye	Hydrophthalmia
Dropsy, General	Anasarca
Dropsy, Head	Hydrocephalus
Dropsy, Heart	Oedema due to heart failure; Congestive Heart Failure. [CancerWEB]
Dropsy, Hepatic	Dropsy, dependant on disease of the liver. [Dunglison1874]
Dropsy, Ovarian	Ascites
Dropsy, Peritoneum	Ascites
Dropsy, Pleura	Hydrothorax
Dropsy, Renal	Dropsy, dependant on disease of the kidney. [Dunglison1874]
Dropsy, Skin	Anasarca
Dropsy, Stomach	Ascites
Dropsy, Testicle	Hydrocele
Dropsy, Wet	Wet Beriberi
Dropsy, Wind	Tympanites
Dropsy, Womb	Hydrometra
Drum Belly	Tympanites
Dry Mouth	Xerostomia
Dthoke	An epidemic disease resembling yaws was observed in the Fiji Islands by the medical officers of the United States' Exploring Expedition. It is called by the natives Dthoke. [Dunglison1874]
Duchenne's Disease	Tabes Dorsalis
Ductus, Occlusion of the	An obstruction or a closure of a passageway or vessel. [Heritage]
Duke’s Disease	A mild exanthematous disease of childhood resembling scarlatina. Also called Fourth disease, Scarlatinella. [Heritage]
Dumb Chill	Dumb Ague
Dumdum Fever	Visceral Leishmaniasis
Duodenitis	Inflammation of the duodenum, characterized by white tongue, bitter taste, anorexia, fullness and tenderness in the region of the duodenum, and often yellowness of skin, along with the ordinary signs of febrile irritation. [Dunglison1874]
Dyscrasia / Dyscrasy	An abnormal bodily condition, especially of the blood. [Heritage]
Dysentery / Dysentaria	Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the large intestine; the chief symptoms of which are: fever, more or less inflammatory, with frequent mucous or bloody evacuations; violent tormina and tenesmus. It occurs, particularly, during the summer and autumnal months, and in hot climates more than cold: frequently, also, in camps and prisons, in consequence of impure air and imperfect nourishment. [Dunglison1874]
Dysentery, Bacillary	An infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus shigella. This condition is characterized by intestinal pain and diarrhea. [CancerWEB]
Dysentery, Bloody	Dysentery
Dysentery, Catarrhal	Sprue
Dysmenorrhea	Painful menstruation.
Dysorexia	Impaired or deranged appetite. [Dorland]
Dyspepsia / Dyspepsy	A disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea. [Wordnet]
Dyspnea	Breathlessness or shortness of breath; difficult or labored breathing. [Dorland]
Dystocia	Difficult delivery or parturition. [Webster]
Dysuria / Dysury	Painful or difficult urination. [Dorland]

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