correct diagnosis; to prescribe the right cure for an illness; to suit the medicine to the illness
metrorrhagia (vaginal bleeding outside the expected menstrual period)
acute disease; medical emergency
incurable disease; terminal illness
incurable disease; terminal illness
acute (of medical condition); grave
stubborn illness; disease that is difficult to treat
decompression sickness; the bends; also
减压病
(medicine) sequelae; residual effects; (fig.) repercussions; aftermath
hypersomnia; excessive sleepiness (medical)
attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
night blindness; nyctalopia
aphasia or aphemia (loss of language)
delusional disorder; (fig.) paranoia
dry eye; xerophthalmia (drying of the tear glands, often due to lack of vitamin A)
complications (undesired side-effect of medical procedure)
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); OCD
acrophobia; fear of heights
codependency (psychology)
moon blindness; equine recurrent uveitis
somnambulism; sleep walking
somnambulism; sleep walking
osteofluorosis; skeletal fluorosis
moyamoya disease (rare brain disease first diagnosed in Japan)
hypochondriasis; hypochondria; also written hypochondriasis; hypochondria; also written 疑病[yi2 bing4]
xeropthalmia (medicine); dry eye syndrome
kwashiorkor (a form of malnutrition)
prosopagnosia; face blindness
hay fever; seasonal allergic rhinitis
bipolar disorder; manic depression
eye floaters (moving spots in the eye's vitreous humor)
altitude sickness; acute mountain sickness
pre-eclampsia, toxaemia of pregnancy (medicine)
terminal illness; incurable condition (also fig.)
(medicine) candidiasis; thrush
human hand foot and mouth disease, a viral infection
anti-inflammatory (medicine)
dubious or hard-to-treat cases (medicine); hard cases
scrapie (prion disease of sheep)
high blood fat disease; hyperlipidemia; hypertriglyceridemia
"urban dependence disease" (sufferers are unwilling to give up city comforts and return to the countryside)
poliomyelitis; infantile paralysis
osteogenesis imperfecta (OI); brittle bone disease
social phobia; social anxiety
senile dementia; Alzheimer's disease
professional boredom syndrome
phenylketonuria (medicine)
"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus
binge eating disorder (BED)
generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
carpal tunnel syndrome (pain in the hands due to pressure on the median nerve); median neuropathy at the wrist
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); crib death
chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
sickle-cell anaemia; sickle-cell disease
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)