Diseases

2. a medical condition in which there are too few red cells in your blood, causing you to feel tired and look pale
3. an extremely painful headache that makes you feel very ill
4. a serious disease which affects your lungs and makes it difficult for you to breathe
6. infectious
8. a medical condition in which a person has very high blood pressure
12. your nose is very sore and liquid keeps coming out of it
13. an illness that makes your joints or muscles stiff and painful
15. an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, esp. the lungs
16. a bacterial infection
18. inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues with the formation of abscesses
21. an illness like a very bad cough in which your tubes become sore and infected
23. a medical condition in which the joints in someone's body are swollen and painful
24. a lung condition which causes difficulty in breathing

1. a medical condition in which someone has too much sugar in their blood
3. a tumor composed of muscular tissue
5. a serious infectious illness which affects your brain and spinal cord
7. infectious
8. a virus which reduces people's resistance to illness and can cause AIDS
9. hernia
10. a serious disease in which cells in a person's body increase rapidly in an uncontrolled way, producing abnormal growths
11. characteristic or illness is passed on to a child from its parents before it is born
14. an illness which is similar to a bad cold but more serious
16. a growth containing liquid that appears inside your body or under your skin
17. a mass of diseased or abnormal cells that has grown in a person's or animal's body
19. a painful swelling of your tonsils caused by an infection
20. a disease which destroys the natural system of protection that the body has against other diseases
22. a hypersensitivity to a particular antigen