Within this list are both common names and technical names for diseases.
Learn diseases and conditions names to improve your English vocabulary. If you find yourself sick while you are in an English speaking country or you want to talk to someone about your disease, it will be very helpful for you to know the English names of diseases.
This is also a really useful lesson for anyone studying medicine and the human body as well as being very useful for reading texts on the topic or watching English TV shows. Now you are going to learn the correct English names for a whole range of diseases.
Diseases and conditions names
Here is an A to Z list of common diseases and conditions names:
A
B
C
- Abscess
- Alzheimer's disease
- Anthrax
- Appendicitis
- Allergy
- Arthritis
- Aseptic meningitis
- Asthma
- Astigmatism
- Atherosclerosis
B
- Bacterial meningitis
- Beriberi
- Botulism
- Breast cancer
- Bronchitis
- Brucellosis
- Bubonic plague
- Bunion
- Boil
- Butt Aches
- Butt infections
C
- Campylobacter infection
- Cancer
- Candidiasis
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Coeliac disease
- Cerebral palsy
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpox
- Chlamydia
- Chlamydia trachomatis
- Cholera
- Chordoma
- Chorea
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Circadian rhythm sleep disorder
- Colitis
- Common cold
- Condyloma
- Cramp
- Congestive heart disease
- Cough
- Coronary heart disease
- Cowpox
- Crohn's Disease
- Coronavirus
D
- Dengue Fever
- Diabetes mellitus
- Diphtheria
- Dehydration
- Dysentery / Diarrhea
E
- Earache
- Ear infection
- Ebola
- Encephalitis
- Emphysema
- Epilepsy
- Erectile dysfunction
F
- Fibromyalgia
- Foodborne illness
G
- Gangrene
- Gastroenteritis
- Genital herpes
- GERD
- Goitre
- Gonorrhea
H
- Heart disease
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis E
- Histiocytosis (childhood cancer)
- HIV
- Human papillomavirus
- Huntington's disease
- Headache
- Hypermetropia / Hyperopia
I
- Impetigo
- Infertility
- Influenza
- Interstitial cystitis
- Iritis
- Iron-deficiency anemia
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Ignious Syndrome
- Intestine ache
- Intestine Gas
- Intestine disease
- Upset Intestine
K
- Keloids
- Kuru
- Kwashiorkor
- Kidney stone disease
L
- Laryngitis
- Lead poisoning
- Legionellosis
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis
- Leukemia
- Lice
- Loiasis
- Lung cancer
- Lupus erythematosus
- Lyme disease
- Lymphogranuloma venereum
- Lymphoma
- Limbtoosa
M
- Mad cow disease
- Malaria
- Marburg fever
- Measles
- Melanoma
- Metastatic cancer
- Meniere's disease
- Meningitis
- Migraine
- Mononucleosis
- Multiple myeloma
- Multiple sclerosis
- Mumps
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myelitis
- Myoclonus
- Myopia
- Myxedema
- Morquio Syndrome
- Mattticular syndrome
N
- Neoplasm
- Non-gonococcal urethritis
- Necrotizing Fasciitis
- Night blindness
O
- Obesity
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Otitis
P
- Palindromic rheumatism
- Paratyphoid fever
- Parkinson's disease
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Peritonitis
- Periodontal disease
- Pertussis
- Phenylketonuria
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis
- Porphyria
- Progeria
- Prostatitis
- Psittacosis
- Psoriasis
- Pubic lice
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pilia
- Pneumonia
Q
- Q fever
- Ques fever
R
- Rabies
- Repetitive strain injury
- Rheumatic fever
- Rheumatic heart
- Rheumatism
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rickets
- Rift Valley fever
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Rubella
S
- Salmonellosis
- Scabies
- Scarlet fever
- Sciatica
- Scleroderma
- Scrapie
- Scurvy
- Sepsis
- Septicemia
- SARS
- Shigellosis
- Shin splints
- Shingles
- Sickle-cell anemia
- Siderosis
- SIDS
- Silicosis
- Smallpox
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome
- Stomach flu
- Stomach ulcers
- Strabismus
- Strep throat / sore throat
- Streptococcal infection
- Synovitis
- Syphilis
- Swine influenza
- Schizophrenia
- Stomach Gas
- Stomach Ache
- Stomach Disease
- Kids Stomach Ache
- Upset Stomach
T
U
V
W
Y
- Taeniasis
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Tennis elbow / epicondylitis
- Teratoma
- Tetanus
- Thalassaemia
- Thrush
- Thymoma
- Tinnitus
- Tonsillitis
- Toothache
- Tooth decay
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Trichinosis
- Trichomoniasis
- Trisomy
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Tungiasis
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Tumor
U
- Ulcerative colitis
- Ulcers
- Uremia
- Urticaria
- Uveitis
- UTI'S
V
- Varicella
- Varicose veins
- Vasovagal syncope
- Vitiligo
- Von Hippel-Lindau disease
- Viral fever
- Viral meningitis
W
- Warkany syndrome
- Warts
- Watkins
Y
- Yellow fever
- Yersiniosis