Some medical terms can be hard to understand. These easy-to-read definitions can help.

A

• What Are Abdominals?
• What Are Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries?
• What Are Arteries and Veins?
• What Is AIDS?
• What Is Alzheimer's Disease?
• What Is Anorexia Nervosa?
• What Is Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)?
• What's Addiction?
• What's Aerobic Activity?
• What's Anemia?
• What's Appendicitis?
• What's Arthritis?
• What's Autism?
• What's an Abrasion?
• What's an Abscess?
• What's an Asthma Action Plan?
• What's an Asthma Flare-Up?

B

• What Are Bacteria?
• What Are Braces?
• What Are Bronchial Tubes?
• What Are Bruises?
• What Are First-Degree Burns?
• What Are Second-Degree Burns?
• What Are Third-Degree Burns?
• What Is Bell's Palsy?
• What Is Blood Pressure?
• What Is Bone Marrow?
• What Is Breast Cancer?
• What's a Blackhead?

C

• What Are Carbohydrates?
• What Are Chromosomes?
• What Does Chronic Mean?
• What Does Contagious Mean?
• What Is Cellulitis?
• What Is Coxsackievirus?
• What's a Contusion?
• What's a Cyst?

D

• What Are Depressants?
• What Does Dislocation Mean?
• What Is DNA?
• What Is Down Syndrome?
• What's Dehydration?
• What's Depression?
• What's Dermatitis?
• What's Dyslexia?

E

• What Is Edema?
• What's Enuresis?

F

• What Is Frostbite?
• What's a Fever?
• What's a Foreign Body?
• What's a Fracture?
• What's the Flu?

G

• What Is Gastroenteritis?
• What Is a Gait Abnormality?
• What Is a Glycosylated Hemoglobin Test (Hemoglobin A1c)?
• What's Glycogen?
• What's Growth Hormone?

H

• What Are Hormones?
• What Does Hearing Loss Mean?
• What Is Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease?
• What Is Hemophilia?
• What Is Hydrocortisone?
• What Is Hypothermia?
• What's Heat Exhaustion?
• What's Herpes Zoster?
• What's a Hemangioma?
• What's a Hematoma?

I

• What Are Infections?
• What Are Involuntary Muscles?
• What Is Impetigo?
• What's Immunotherapy (Allergy Shots)?
• What's Influenza?
• What's the ICU?

J

• What's Junk Food?
• What's Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?

K

• What Are Ketones?
• What Are Kidney Stones?
• What Is Kawasaki Disease?
• What Is Keratin?

L

• What Is Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)?
• What Is a Lung Function Test?
• What's Lyme Disease?

M

• What Are Migraines?
• What's Melanin?
• What's Mononucleosis?
• What's Myalgia?
• What's a Microscope?
• What's a Mucous Membrane?

N

• What Does Nutrition Mean?
• What Is Nicotine?
• What's a Nasal Cavity?
• What's the Navel?
• What's the Nervous System?

O

• What Is Osteoporosis?

P

• What Are Palpitations?
• What Are Papillae?
• What Are Pupils?
• What Is Parkinson's Disease?
• What Is Polydipsia?
• What's Pollen?
• What's Protein?
• What's the Pilomotor Reflex?

R

• What Are Red Blood Cells?
• What Are Retractions?
• What Does Rx Mean?
• What Is Roseola?
• What's Ringworm?
• What's a Rash?
• What's a Rhinovirus?

S

• What Are Sebaceous Glands?
• What Are Semicircular Canals?
• What Are Symptoms?
• What Is Scoliosis?
• What Is Sebum?
• What's Scabies?
• What's Scarlet Fever?
• What's Shingles?
• What's Sinusitis?
• What's a Scab?
• What's a Scar?
• What's a Sprain?
• What's a Stethoscope?
• What's a Strain?
• What's a Stye?
• What's the Stapes?

T

• What's Tobacco?
• What's Tonsillitis?

V

• What's Varicella Zoster?
• What's a Virus?

W

• What Are Warts?
• What Are White Blood Cells?

Y

• What's Yellow Fever?
• What's a Yeast Infection?

Z

• What Does Zoonosis Mean?

Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.

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