Your Ultimate Guide to Conditions, Illnesses, and Diseases in Spanish (2023)

FAQs

What are the 4 types of illness? ›

There are four main types of disease: infectious diseases, deficiency diseases, hereditary diseases (including both genetic diseases and non-genetic hereditary diseases), and physiological diseases.

“You know, there's 10,000 diseases, and we only have 500 cures.”

The world's deadliest infections, including Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV/AIDS, have been considered as the "Big Three" infectious diseases (BTIDs). With leading infections and deaths every year, the BTIDs have been recognized as the world's greatest pandemics.

Amy Kelley, MD, and others have proposed the following definition: Serious illness is a health condition that carries a high risk of mortality and either negatively impacts a person's daily functioning or quality of life or excessively strains his or her caregivers.

What are 20 common diseases? ›

Thanks to clinical research and the dedicated efforts of medical professionals, many diseases have been eradicated over the last 100 years. Modern treatments exist for smallpox, polio and leprosy, and researchers have even developed therapies for previously fatal illnesses such as pneumonia.

Whether it's a common sickness like a cold or the flu, an upset stomach or gastro illness, debilitating headache or migraine, or any other kind of sudden, short-term illness, we keep a number of appointments open each day for emergency bookings so you can get in to see a doctor as soon as possible.

dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, advanced lung, heart, kidney and liver disease, stroke and other neurological diseases, including motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.

Ischemic heart disease, or coronary artery disease

The deadliest disease in the world is coronary artery disease (CAD). Also known as ischemic heart disease, CAD occurs when the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart become narrowed. Untreated CAD can lead to chest pain, heart failure, and arrhythmias.

But there is still — despite 30 years of effort — no AIDS vaccine. There is no universal flu vaccine. There are no vaccines with long-lasting protection against malaria or tuberculosis. None for parasites like Chagas, elephantiasis, hookworm or liver flukes.

Leading causes of death worldwide

heart disease. stroke. lower respiratory infections. COPD.

The agents that cause disease fall into five groups: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and helminths (worms).

The four chronic conditions are cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and diabetes. These four conditions cause more than 50 percent of all deaths in that vast majority of communities.

What is the five signs of infection? ›

Immediate medical care may be needed if a headache, vomiting, fever, or a seizure occurs along with another serious illness. Symptoms of a serious illness include: Severe neck stiffness or pain. Confusion or extreme irritability.

countable noun. You can refer to something that causes death or is likely to cause death as a killer. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.

According to this way of thinking, disease is something that needs to be cured, such as infection, injury, toxic exposure, cell degeneration, etc. Illness is something that needs to be managed such as feelings of pain, discomfort, distress, weakness, fatigue, etc.

A person is called healthy if he is physically, mentally and socially fit.

High blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and smoking are key risk factors for heart disease.

Whenever the normal working of our body system gets disturbed, we feel sick. It can happen when a bacterium, virus, etc, enters our body or because of unhealthy living practices like lack of exercise or intake of drugs/excessive sugar/salt. There are two major kinds of diseases: infectious and non-infectious.

What diseases are more common in females? ›

Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.

A panacea /pænəˈsiːə/, named after the Greek goddess of universal remedy Panacea, is any supposed remedy that is claimed (for example) to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely.

If someone has an incurable disease, they cannot be cured of it. He is suffering from an incurable skin disease.

Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood glucose.

The survey found that flu is the most widely accepted excuse for staying home, although just about 42 percent of bosses thought it was necessary to do so. Next up were back pains, accident-related injuries, and stress. These are the top 10 reasons for calling in sick, in order from most acceptable to least.

The 24-hour flu is often caused by one of two viruses: norovirus and rotavirus. Both viruses are shed in the stool of an infected person, meaning that you can become infected if you ingest tiny particles of stool from an infected person. This can occur when proper hygiene or food handling practices aren't carried out.

There's no cure yet, but our scientists are working on a ground-breaking weight management study, to help people put their type 2 diabetes into remission. Remission is when blood glucose (or blood sugar) levels are in a normal range again. This doesn't mean diabetes has gone for good.

Which disease have been removed from the world? ›

So far, the world has eradicated two diseases — smallpox and rinderpest.

A chronic disease may be stable (does not get any worse) or it may be progressive (gets worse over time). Some chronic diseases can be permanently cured. Most chronic diseases can be beneficially treated, even if they cannot be permanently cured.

Although there is no formal definition, common diseases are those that most frequently affect us and are often those with which we are most familiar.

disease, any harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism, generally associated with certain signs and symptoms and differing in nature from physical injury. A diseased organism commonly exhibits signs or symptoms indicative of its abnormal state.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally.

cancer. dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. advanced lung, heart, kidney and liver disease. stroke and other neurological diseases, including motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.

Diseases can be grouped into two types: communicable , which are caused by pathogens and can be transferred from one person to another, or from one organism to another - in humans these include measles, food poisoning and malaria. non-communicable , which are not transferred between people or other organisms.

How do you know if you are seriously ill? ›

Immediate medical care may be needed if a headache, vomiting, fever, or a seizure occurs along with another serious illness. Symptoms of a serious illness include: Severe neck stiffness or pain. Confusion or extreme irritability.

Agent, host, and environmental factors interrelate in a variety of complex ways to produce disease.