# Need nasty sounding disease names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823 "2003-12-13T21:18:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eman77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@eman77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eman77)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/1 "2003-12-13T21:18:54Z")
I’m currently writing a stand-up comedy act and I need some nasty sounding diseases and side-effects. I’ll even take words that sound like horrible diseases and aren’t at all. (like Catholism or Kasparitis) Here is what I got so far: Syphillis Leprosy Scrofula Ebola Epilepsy Lupus Kuru Lumbago Scorbutus Chancroids Chagoma Fistula’s Constant bleeding from both eyes Yeast infection of the mouth Cancer of the Testicles Instant and sudden death So help me out a bit ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/2 "2003-12-13T21:30:27Z")
[Right here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=228270&highlight=disease) ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/3 "2003-12-13T21:36:42Z")
botulism Yellow fever Scarlet fever Ruematic fever Pleurisy Bubonic plague Small Pox Typhoid Diptheria Malaria Consumption Ricketts Scurvy psorisis Shingles Pnemonia Bronchitis Mastitis Ring worm Mumps Measles Protesis Tetnis AIDS pardon spelling errors ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/4 "2003-12-13T21:40:07Z")
I found this gem while doing research for my Sociology project on drug abuse prevention for American youth. From [http://www.teenchallenge.com/drugs/cocaine.cfm?doc\_id=5#effects](http://www.teenchallenge.com/drugs/cocaine.cfm?doc_id=5#effects) > [@](#): > > Cocaine users subject themselves to destruction of liver cells, lung damage, severe weight loss, hallucinations, psychosis, and **sudden and lingering death**. (Bolding mine) Sudden and lingering death! Wow. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/5 "2003-12-14T01:44:20Z")
Bullous pemphigoid Onychogryposis Necrotizing fasciitis Xerophthalmia Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis Whistling face syndrome Burning vulva syndrome Gangrenous stomatitis Tsutsugamushi disease Poikilodermatomyositis Genital erosive lichen planus Pityriasis furfuracea ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/6 "2003-12-14T02:22:43Z")
I’ve always been fond of purpura. ---
**Author:** ![Zweistein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/54ee81/32.png) [@Zweistein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zweistein)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/7 "2003-12-14T02:35:36Z")
Photonomia Progenolepsis Parasyntrax Ortholecsis Metapropellis Ordinascepsis etc. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/8 "2003-12-14T03:18:16Z")
If you were a horse, you could have strangles. Or windpuffs. Or sweeney. Or galls. Or (pick one) parrot mouth or monkey jaw. Or founder. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/9 "2003-12-14T03:42:11Z")
\*\* Anal Scurvy \*\* ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/10 "2003-12-14T04:57:26Z")
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/11 "2003-12-14T05:45:15Z")
Pheochromocytoma (hundreds of extra adrenal glands - they get twitchy) [http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section2/chapter9/9d.jsp](http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section2/chapter9/9d.jsp) Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (Hemorraghic, like the name says) [http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/pox/2000/Congo.html](http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/pox/2000/Congo.html) Epididymitis (Grab your balls, we’re going bowling -really!) [http://www.uro.com/epididym.htm](http://www.uro.com/epididym.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/12 "2003-12-14T06:09:17Z")
Ankylkosing Spondylitis. ---
**Author:** ![St.Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/13 "2003-12-14T06:44:15Z")
Bilharzia Euthanasia Anthrax Dengue fever Lockjaw Trachoma Chlamydia Typhus Typoid fever Legionaire’s Disease Diptheria Chron’s Disease Colitus Dracontiasis River Blindness Irritable Bowel Syndrome Rabies Ringworm Scarlet fever Montezeumas Revenge Rubella Indigo Scabies Hepatitus Phrenia Lombago African Sleeping Sickness Gingivitus Scrotal Cinematic Multiplex Intestinal Worms Whooping Cough Neonatal Tetanus Oroya Fever Cholera Salmonellosis Rabbit fever Ciguatera Poisoning Rocky Mountain Spotted fever Trichinosis Yellow fever Sounds like your comedy act is a real hoot, **eman**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/14 "2003-12-14T06:47:30Z")
**Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis** , the longest word in the English language. ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/15 "2003-12-14T07:02:41Z")
I’ve always been fond of [this list](http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Monty_Python/Monty_Python_Sings/Medical_Love_Song/192519.html). Some highlights: scrumpox scrotal pustules ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/16 "2003-12-14T07:17:04Z")
Fatal familial insomnia Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy Chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy ---
**Author:** ![Palewriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@Palewriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palewriter)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/17 "2003-12-14T08:05:10Z")
Smiley’s Syndrome Creeping scarfoma Ronald MacDonald Disease Chronic burping with boils One-legged Arrrrrr Syndrome (OAS) The Fizzles Craps Three Disorder Festering Whonuts Mister Wilson’s Disease Pustule Migration Complex The Screaming Abdabs Frond Mad Kitten Disease (aka Brown-Wurlitzer Syndrome) …and worst of all… Second-degree Oojahs with Complications [shudder] ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/18 "2003-12-14T08:43:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Palewriter \* > \*\*Smiley’s Syndrome > Creeping scarfoma > Ronald MacDonald Disease > Chronic burping with boils > One-legged Arrrrrr Syndrome (OAS) > The Fizzles > Craps Three Disorder > Festering Whonuts > Mister Wilson’s Disease > Pustule Migration Complex > The Screaming Abdabs > Frond > Mad Kitten Disease (aka Brown-Wurlitzer Syndrome) > > …and worst of all… > > Second-degree Oojahs with Complications > > [shudder] \*\* So Many Band Names! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/19 "2003-12-14T09:12:30Z")
Scrofula ---
**Author:** ![Blaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823/20 "2003-12-14T16:26:46Z")
Herpetic whitlow And for your act, think about that massage parlor with the “happy ending.” Safe, right? Wrong! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-nasty-sounding-disease-names/218823.md?page=2)