Locate medical conditions by their starting letter
Some Random Medical Conditions
Sports injuries
Playing sport and doing regular exerciseis good for your health, but can sometimes result in injuries .
Nasal congestion
Catarrh is a build-up of mucus in an airway or cavity of the body.
Self-harm
Self-harm is when somebody intentionally damages or injures their body. It's usually away of coping with or expressing overwhelming emotional distress.
General anaesthetic
General anaesthesia is a state of controlled unconsciousness. During a general anaesthetic, medications are used to send you to sleep, so you're unaware of surgery and don't move or feel pain while it's carried out.
Reflux in babies
Babies often bring upmilk during or shortly after feedingthis is known as possetting or reflux.
Shin splints
Shin splints is the name for pain in the shins, or the front of the lower legs, usually caused by exercise.
Syringomyelia
Syringomyelia is a condition characterized by a fluid-filled cavity or cyst known as a syrinx that forms within the spinal cord. Syringomyelia is a chronic condition and a syrinx can expand over time compressing or destroying the surrounding nerve tissue.
Periods
A period is the part of the menstrual cycle when a woman bleeds from her vagina for a few days.
Spirometry
Spirometry is a simple test used to help diagnose and monitor certain lung conditions by measuring how much air you can breathe out in one forced breath.
Blackheads
Acne is a common skin condition that affects most people at some point. It causes spots, oily skin and sometimes skin that's hot or painful to touch.
Family Doctor
Family physicians are a one-stop medical care shop dedicated to treating the whole person. Unlike specialists, family practitioners treat each organ and every disease in both genders of all ages. The foundation upon which family medicine is built is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship that emphasizes preventive and integrated care. Primary care doctors support your family’s health through all life cycles—birth, acute illness, chronic illness and end-of-life care.
Mobile phone safety
Around 93% of adults in the UK own or use a mobile phone, and they're an essential part of many people's lives. There have been concernsthat the radio waves they produce and receive might be unsafe.
Blisters
Blistersare small pockets of fluid that usually form in the upper layers of skin after it's been damaged.Blisters can develop anywhere on the body but are most common on the hands and feet.
Tongue-tie
Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) is a problemaffecting somebabies with a tight piece of skin between the underside of their tongue and the floor of their mouth (lingual frenulum).
Vulvodynia (persistent vulval pain)
Vulvodynia is persistent, unexplained pain in the vulva ( the skin surrounding the entrance to the vagina).
Brucellosis
Brucellosis is a bacterialinfection originating in animals that can cause long-lasting flu-like symptoms. It's rare in most developed countries.
MRI scan
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a type of scan that uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the body.