| DEFINITIONS
OF DISABILITIES |
| Acute
Coryza - An acute upper
respiratory infection |
| Adenitis
- Inflammation of a gland or
lymph node |
| Albuminuria
- The presence of protein,
usually albumin but at times
globulin, in the urine,
indicating either dysfunction or
disease. Also called proteinuria |
| Anophthalmos
- Disease of eye & eye lids |
| Cacheyia
- probably cachexia. General ill
health and malnutrition, marked
by weakness and emaciation,
usually associated with severe
disease, such as tuberculosis or
cancer |
| Debility - Condition
of weakness |
| Drop
Foot or Foot Drop - Paralysis or
weakness of the dorsiflexor
muscles of the foot and ankle,
resulting in dragging of the foot
and toes |
| Dyspnoea
- Difficulty in breathing |
| Empyema
- A collection of pus in a cavity |
| Kyphosis
- An excessive backward curvature
of the dorsal spine |
| Lumbago
- Pain in the lower, or lumbar,
region of the back or loins, esp.
chronic or recurring pain |
| Myalgia
- Pain in the muscles |
| Nephritis
- Inflammation of the kidneys |
| Neurasthenia
- A nervous condition |
| Neuritis
- Inflammation of a nerve |
| Phthsis
- Pulmonary tuberculosis;
consumption |
| Quinsy
- Infection of the head &
neck region |
| Renal
Calculi (aka Kidney stone) - an
abnormal stone, or concretion,
composed primarily of oxalates
and phosphates, found in the
kidney |
| Rheumatic
Fever - (aka RF) is an illness
which arises as a complication of
untreated or inadequately treated
strep throat infection which can
seriously damage the valves of
the heart. |
| Scabies
- Highly contagious parasitic
skin disease |
| Sciatica - Pain in
the line of the sciatic nerve-
buttock, back of thigh, foot |
| Sclerosis - Abnormal
hardening of a tissue |
