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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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His forHearing

You use your ears to hear with. Hearing is a very important sense but it is possible to live very well when you cannot hear. Someone who cannot hear is deaf. Some people who are deaf never learn to talk so they communicate with sign language.

His forHeel

Your heel is the back, bottom part of your foot. Most of your weight is supported by your heels. The woman in the photo is wearing high-heeled shoes. The bottom, back part of a shoe is also called the heel.

His forHemlock

Hemlock is also known as Devil's porridge, beaver Poison, musquash root, cowbane or poison parsley. Hemlock is a very poisonous plant that has been used for centuries for assassinations and executions. It is extremely toxic to humans and animals, and eating any amount can cause death. It is most toxic when it is fresh.

His forHind

The hind parts of something are at the back or rear. In animals, you might describe them as having hind legs or hindquarters.

His forHip

Your hip is the part below your waist on the sides of your body where your leg joins your body. People's hips are typically wider than their waists, particularly on women.
The woman in the picture has one hand on her hip.

His forHock

An animal's hock is the equivalent joint to our ankle. It is found half-way up their hind legs.

His forHoof

While people have toes on the end of their feet and cats and dogs have paws with claws, animals like cows and horses have hooves.
A hoof is just the tip of the animal's toe, encased in a hard substance made out of the same stuff as our fingernails are made from. Hooves continue to grow just like our fingernails, and are worn down by the animal walking around. If the animal like a horse walks around on very hard ground like a road their hoof will wear down too fast, so people make them special shoes to protect their hooves.
The hoof in the picture is a cow's hoof. Cows have cloven feet, meaning the hoof is divided into two sections.

His forHorns

Horns grow in pairs on the heads of animals like sheep, goats and some cows. Horns start growing when the animal is very young and continue to grow for their entire life, often getting to be very large. Horns often grow in a twisting or spiral shape. In some animals only the male grows horns.

His forHospital

A hospital is a big place where sick and injured people are taken to get better. Babies are also born in hospitals. Doctors and nurses work together to make people better in hospitals.

His forHumerus

The humerus is the large bone in your upper arm. It goes from your elbow to your shoulder. Muscles such as your biceps and triceps connect to your humerus.

His forHump

A hump is a large lump on the back of an animal or a person. On people, a hump is usually caused by your spine curving from old age. With animals like the camel in the picture, the hump is mostly fat, and it stores food.

His forHygiene

Hygiene means keeping yourself and the place you live and work clean so you stay healthy.
Basic personal hygiene would include having a shower and brushing your teeth every day, and making sure that your clothes and bed linen is clean too.

Iis forIll

Ill is another word for sick, as in "I feel ill today". It may also be used before another word to make a negative phrase out of that word, for example "the child was very ill mannered" , or "she received nothing but ill will".
Influenza is an infectious disease that birds and animals can get. The flu generally gives you a fever, sore throat, muscle pains, headache, a cough, and generally makes you feel very bad.
When you give someone an injection you use a syringe to put some liquid into them through a small needle.

The person in the picture is being vaccinated.

Iis forInjury

An injury is damage done to a living thing. Injuries can range from a small scratch or bruise to a broken bone.

Iis forInsomnia

If you have insomnia, you have trouble sleeping, which means you are tired during the day. Someone who has insomnia is called an insomniac. Insomniacs might have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or both.
Many medications have insomnia as a side effect.
Intestines are part of your digestive tract. They are basically a long tube that runs from your stomach to your anus. The picture is of some pig intestines for sale at a market.
The iris is the colored part of your eye. The iris is a muscle that opens and closes the pupil in the center of your eye, controlling how much light reaches the inside of your eye.

Iis forItch

An itch is an annoying, twingey feeling in your skin that you just have to scratch. Some itches are from touching something like poison ivy, some are from mosquito bites, and others just happen for no reason.