Here you can look through thousands of and diseases, ailments, medical conditions and illnesses. You can find the symptoms. Read about any ailment's diagnosis and find medications that can be used and the correct treatments that are needed.
Diseases, Illnesses & Ailments Starting from Letter S
- Swallowing Difficulties
Difficulty swallowing may be a medical condition in which an individual needs more time and effort to move his or her food or liquid from the mouth to the stomach. The condition may also be associated with pain. The condition is also known as dysphagia. [read more] - Sweaty Sock Syndrome
Sweaty sock syndrome or medically termed as juvenile plantar dermatosis is a condition of the skin. In this condition, the skin on the soles becomes scaly and red which usually affects children and young teenagers. [read more] - Sweeley-Klionsky Disease
Sweeley-Klionsky disease (also known as Anderson-Fabry disease, Angiokeratoma corporis diffusum, Ceramide trihexosidosis, and Fabry disease) is an X-linked recessive (inherited) lysosomal storage disease. [read more] - Sweet's Syndrome
Sweet's syndrome is a skin disorder marked by fever and painful skin lesions. [read more] - Swift Disease
Swift disease is another name for mercury poisoning. It is a disease caused by exposure to the metal mercury. This can cause serious health problems ranging from liver and gastrointestinal poisoning. [read more] - Swimmer's Ear
Swimmer's ear is an infection of the outer ear and ear canal. It can be associated with a middle ear infection (otitis media) if the eardrum gets ruptured. [read more] - Swimmer's Itch
Swimmer's itch is an immune reaction also is only short-term that occurs in the skin of individuals that have been infected by water-borne trematode parasites. [read more] - Swimmer's Itch
Swimmers' itch is an itchy rash due to parasites that has burrowed in the skin while swimming in parasite-infested water. The condition is also called cercarial dermatitis. [read more] - Swimming Pool Granuloma
Swimming pool granuloma is a bacterial infection caused by the microorganism named Mycobacterium marinum. [read more] - Swollen Lymph Nodes
Swelling of lymph nodes typically results from localized or systemic infection, abscess formation, or malignancy [read more] - Swyer Syndrome
Swyer syndrome, or XY gonadal dysgenesis, is a kind of female hypogonadism in which no functional gonads are present to induce puberty in an otherwise normal girl whose karyotype is then found to be XY. [read more] - Sydenham's Chorea
Sydenham's chorea (also known as "Saint Vitus Dance") is a disease marked by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements affecting primarily the face, feet and hands. [read more] - Sympathetic Ophtalmitis
Sympathetic ophtalmitis or SO for brevity is a medical condition referring to the granulomatous Uveitis which is a kind of inflammation of both eyes as a result of a trauma to one eye. [read more] - Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia is the condition where the stimulation of one sense gives off a perception which should be elicited by another sense. An example of this is a loud noise: it's the ears that should perceive the event, but in synaesthesia, the loud bang is represented by a blinding light. Synaesthesia often occurs during sleep, when one is dreaming. [read more] - Syncope
Vasovagal syncope is the most common kind of fainting. There are several syncope syndromes which all fall under the umbrella of vasovagal syncope. The common element among these conditions is the central mechanism leading to a loss of consciousness. The differences among them are in the factors which trigger the syncope. [read more] - Syndactyly
Syndactyly is a condition where two or more digits are fused together. It happens normally in some mammals, such as the siamang but is an unusual condition in humans. [read more] - Syndrome Of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone
The syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) is a condition generally found in the hospital population, especially in patients being hospitalized for central nervous system (CNS) injury. This is a syndrome marked by excessive release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH or vasopressin) from the posterior pituitary gland or another source. [read more] - Syndrome x
Syndrom x (also known as Metabolic syndrome) is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. It affects a great number of people, and prevalence increases with age. [read more] - Synesthesia
Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (like hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. [read more] - Synostosis
Craniosynostosis is a congenital defect resulting to an abnormally developed brain and misshapen head. [read more]
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