MEDICAL CONDITIONS
Altarian Encephalitis
A retrovirus that incorporated its DNA directly into the cells of its host. The virus can lie dormant for years, but activate without warning. Victims would be pyrexic and comatose and would suffer from widespread synaptic degradation. Long term memory, usually from the moment of the infection, would be destroyed.
Anchilles Fever
Deadly disease capable of spreading rapidly in a planetary population and causing widespread and painful deaths in the millions.
Andronesian Encephalitis
A Disease transmitted by airborne particles.
Aphasia Virus
A virus created by Bajorian terrorists. The disease organism is delivered through an aphasia device planted in food replicators. Once contracted, the virus finds its way to the temporal lobes and disrupts normal communication processes. As the virus spreads, it attacks the autonomic nervous system, causing a coma, then death.
Aphasia
Dysfunction of certain brain centres affecting the ability to communicate in a coherent manner.
Arethian Flu
Viral disease.
Atherosclerosis
A pathological condition in some humaniod species characterized by the hardening of the arteries and accompanied by the deposit of fat in the inner arterial walls.
Balt'masor Syndrome
Klingon disease requiring regular treatment, given by injection.
Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome
An intron virus that causes humaniods and other animals to develop structural and behavioral characteristics of earlier evolutionary forms.
Bendii Syndrome
Rare illness that sometimes affects Vulcans over the age of 200. The disease is characterized by gradual loss of emotional control; victims exhibit sudden bursts of emotion and irrational anger. Diagnosis is made by culturing tissue from the patient's metathalamus.
Cartalian Fever
A deadly viral plague.
Cholera
Acute infectious enterities, common on Earth in the 19th and 20th centuries, caused by the organism Vibrio cholerae.
Common Cold
An infection of the upper respiratory tract caused by any of over 200 viruses in many humaniod species. By the 24th Century the comon cold is a curable ailment.
Coleibric Hemorrhage
A fatal condition in Cardassian physiology.
Correllium Fever
A disease
Darnay's Disease
A deadly ailmentthat attacks the brain and nervous systemof its victim
Delta Radiation
A form of hazardous energy
Delta - Series Radioisotopes
A category of radioactive elements that are toxic to humans
Dermal Dysplasia
A medical skin disorder caused by an overexposure of the epidermis to hazardous levels of thermal and ultra violet radiation.
Dorek Syndrome
A very rare and incurable disease that afflicts one out of every five million Ferengi.
Eosinophilla
An abnormally high count of serum eosinophilla, a type of white blood cell in humaniods.
Hemocythemia
Medical condition in which intercellular presures are unstable. This condition was also called hemocythemia imbalance and can be treated with opmotic pressure therapy.
Hesperan Thumping Cough
A flu - like affliction
Holodiction
Contraction of holodeck addiction. A psychological condition where the individual becomes so caught up in holographic simulations that the real world becomes unimportant.
HTDS
Holotransference Dementia Syndrome. Medical condition in which a person becomes so disoriented within a holographic simulation that they lose their sense of identity and start to think they are part of the program
Iresine Syndrome
A very rare neurological disorder in humanoids characterised by a peculiar electropathic signature in the thalamus, and a severely decreased histamine count. Victims of the disorder, first identified in the 23rd century, would fall suddenly into a coma for approximately 72 hours.
Irumodic Syndrome
Degenerative disorder that causes progressive deterioration of the synaptic pathways. The disease can cause senility and eventually death. Treatment of choice for the disorder is peridaxon, though this is simply palliative; no cure exists as yet.
Iverson's Disease
A chronic disease that causes fatal degeneration of muscular functions in humans. Iverson's Disease does not, however impair mental functions. There is no known cure for the condition.
Lacunar Amnesia
Type of amnesia that occurs when a patient witnesses an act of violence so terrible that the patient rejects the reality of the situation.
Larosian Virus
A mild disorder.
Levodian Flu
A viral disease. Levodian Flu normally last 29 hours. The symptoms include sneezing and a runny nose.
Mendakan Pox
Humaniod disease characterised by skin molting..
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