Medical Terms

palsy

Paralysis or loss of muscle control. Uncontrollable shaking due to the loss of muscle control.

paresis

A slight or partial paralysis, which migth be caused by a stroke.

paroxysm

Convulsion of some sort.

plague

See: black death.

pleurisy

Inflammation of the lung and usually accompanied by chest pain.

pneumonia

A disease of the lungs characterized by inflammation and consolidation followed by resolution and caused by infection or irritants.

pox

Syphilis.

putrid fever

Diptheria or typhus.

pyrexia

See: dysentery.