Common Diseases & Disorders
As an allied healthcare professional, it is part of your everyday job to make meaning of medical diagnostics, records and a breadth of medical terminologies. Our partial diseases-disorders index features the most common ailments known to man that you may encounter daily through medical transcription, coding or billing.
Please use the information provided here sparingly. Kindly take note that the information we supply in this section is for general purposes only, and is not intended to replace the training and knowledge covered by Meditec’s medical career training programs. The information provided here should be in no manner used for diagnosis or treatment for a particular disorder.
Diseases and Disorders Index [Partial Listing]
- Alpha-1-Antritrypsin deficiency (Emphysema)
- Anemia
- Appendicitis -atypical
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Bacteria
- Blood clots (Embolism)
- Cancer
- Cholelithiasis (Gallstones)
- Diabetes
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Embolism
- Emphysema
- Eye Terms & Common Eye Problems
- Gallbladder disease
- Gallstones
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease – GERD
- Heart (Atrial Fibrillation)
- Heberden’s nodes (Arthritis)
- Hyperlipoproteinemia
- Hypertension
- Influenza
- Lyme Disease Review
- Liver disease
- Osteoporosis
- Prions
- Skin diseases
- Staph Infections [MRSA]
- Stenosis
- Stroke
- Vertigo
- Viruses (Prions)