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Medical conditions and body parts. But nothing good enough to self-diagnose with, just the basics!

Subcategories: Body parts (199), Phobias (6), Senses (5), Substances (22)

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A chiropractor is someone who manipulates the bones and muscles in your body. These manipulations can help restore balance in the body and make you feel better.

Cis forCigar

A cigar is a tight roll of dried, fermented tobacco leaves. People set one end of the cigar on fire and breathe the smoke in through the other end.
A cigarette is a roll of paper, filled with finely chopped tobacco and other additives. People who use cigarettes are called smokers. Modern cigarettes usually have a filter at one end. The unfiltered end is set on fire and the other end is put in the mouth, and smokers inhale the smoke through the cigarette.

Cis forClaw

A claw is something hard and pointed that is found on the end of the toes of most animals and birds. People do not have claws - we have fingernails instead.
Claws help animals to climb trees, scratch other animals, or grip the ground so they can run faster.

Cis forCleavage

A cleavage is the hole left after you cleave something. More commonly though, a cleavage is the space between a woman's breasts.
Your collarbone is a bone in the upper part of your chest. They run horizontally and connect your shoulders to your breastbone in the center of your chest.

The woman in the picture has prominent collarbones.

Cis forCramp

A cramp is a pain in one of your muscles that often happens after exercise, or are caused by low salts in your blood. Cramps can hit suddenly and can be extremely painful. The person in the picture has a cramp in their leg.

Cis forCrest

A crest is the highest part of something, or something on the top of something else. The bird in the picture has a crest of feathers on top of its head.

Cis forCrotch

Your crotch is the place where your legs meet, and can also be called your groin.

Cis forCrutches

Crutches are pieces of wood with padded handles that you use to help you walk. You tuck the ends of the crutches under your arms.
People usually use crutches when they have a broken leg or sprained ankle. If you can't walk at all, you will need a wheelchair.

Dis forDander

Dander are flakes of dead skin cells that have been shed by a person or an animal.

Dis forDandruff

Dandruff is when your head under your hair loses little white flakes of skin and they get caught in your hair or fall onto your shoulders. Dandruff can be itchy like in the picture, or just not be nice to look at.
You can buy special shampoo to get rid of dandruff.

Dis forDeaf

Someone is deaf if they cannot hear things properly, or they cannot hear things at all. People who are only partially deaf can use a hearing aid to help them hear things properly again.

Dis forDentist

A dentist is someone who looks after other people's teeth. They clean your teeth properly, and fix up holes in people's teeth. They can also make your teeth look better by straightening or whitening them. Sometimes going to see the dentist can be painful or scarey, so if you don't want a dentist trip to be bad, you should look after your teeth and brush them every day.

Dis forDimple

A dimple is a dent somewhere on a person or animal. Dimples are most commonly seen on people's cheeks.

Dis forDisease

You, or a part of your body, is diseased if it is not working properly for some reason. Disease can be caused by a contagious illness, poison, genetic condition or other imbalances.

Dis forDoctor

A doctor is someone who makes sick or injured people better. Their main role is to find out what is wrong with someone and prescribe treatment, while a nurse's role is mainly to look after sick or injured people as they get better. Some doctors perform surgery, cutting people open to fix what is wrong inside, to help people get better.

Dis forDose

A dose is a measured amount of medicine that you give to someone when they are sick.
Down feathers are fluffy feathers found underneath the smooth outer feathers of a bird, and on chicks that haven't grown their adult feathers yet.

Eis forEar

You have one ear on either side of your head. You use your ears to hear with. You have two ears shaped the way they are so that you can tell which direction sound is coming from.