Category:Medical conditions

Topics dealing with medical conditions and ailments such as arthritis, cancer and epilepsy

A 1969 photo of a patient suffering from heart problems in Saigon

Subcategories

• Arthritis - a joint disorder that involves the inflammation of one or more joints
• Cancer - medically known as a malignant neoplasm, a large group of diseases in which cells exhibit uncontrolled growth and impinge on other biological tissues or functions
• Cardiac arrest - also known as a cardiopulmonary arrest, the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to the failure of the heart to contract efficiently
• Diabetes - also known as diabetes mellitus, a group of metabolic diseases in which an individual has high blood sugar due to problems with insulin
• Diseases - an abnormal condition affecting an organism, or a medical condition exhibiting certain symptoms
• Epilepsy - a chronic neurological disorder characterized by intermittent seizures
• Hypertension - a chronic medical condition in which arterial blood pressure is regularly elevated
• Lesions - any abnormality in an organism's tissue, usually caused by disease or trauma
• Malignancy - the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse and to eventually result in death, most commonly used in reference to tumors
• Multiple sclerosis, also MS, an inflammatory disease in which the myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged
• Pregnant - a child developing in the uterus
• Tissue damage - or soft tissue damage (STI), any damage to a tissue, usually the result of sprain, strain, or overuse of a particular body part
• Tumors - a neoplasm that appears enlarged in size, usually but not always associated with cancer
• Wounds - any injury in which skin is torn, cut, punctured, or contused