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Outdated Medical Terminology
Over time, many disease names have changed. Below is a list of some of the old terms that you may come across and their current names.
Outdated Term
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Current Term
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| apoplexy |
stroke |
| bad blood |
syphilis |
| blood poisoning |
septicemia (overwhelming bacterial infection) |
| Bright's disease |
glomerulonephritis (serious kidney disease) |
| consumption |
tuberculosis, pulmonary |
| cretinism |
hypothyroidism, congenital |
| dropsy |
congestive heart failure |
| fatty liver |
cirrhosis |
| glandular fever |
mononucleosis |
| grippe |
influenza (flu) killed lots of people in 1918 |
| jail fever |
typhus |
| lock jaw |
tetanus |
| lung fever |
pneumonia |
| lung sickness |
tuberculosis |
| plague/black death |
Bubonic plague |
| podagra |
gout |
| Pott's disease |
tuberculosis of the spinal vertebrae |
| quinsy |
streptococcal tonsillitis |
| scrofula |
tuberculosis of the neck lymph nodes |
| toxemia of pregnancy |
eclampsia (high blood pressure & seizures) |
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