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Diseases that start with C
Looking for diseases that begin with C? Here are 26 of them in alphabetical order, from “Cancer” to “Cystic fibrosis”.
All 26 diseases that start with C
- Cancer
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cat scratch diseasealso Cat scratch fever
- Cataract
- Celiac diseasealso Coeliac disease, Celiac, Coeliac
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpoxalso Chicken pox, Varicella
- Chikungunya
- Chlamydia
- Cholera
- Chronic fatigue syndromealso ME, Myalgic encephalomyelitis
- Chronic wasting disease
- Cirrhosis
- Common coldalso Cold
- Conjunctivitisalso Pink eye
- COPD
- Coronary artery diseasealso Coronary heart disease
- Covid-19also Covid, Coronavirus
- Cowpox
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseasealso CJD
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic feveralso Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
- Crohns diseasealso Crohns
- Croup
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cushings diseasealso Cushings syndrome
- Cystic fibrosis
About this list
- C is the most common first letter in this list: 26 of the 232 diseases (11%).
- Shortest: “COPD”. Longest: “Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever”.
- 12 names have more than one word.
- 12 can be spelled more than one way, and all the spellings count.
Quick answers
- How many diseases start with C?
- 26 of the 232 diseases in Icillion start with C, for example Cancer, Covid-19 and Chickenpox.
- What is the longest name among diseases that start with C?
- The longest is “Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever” and the shortest is “COPD”.
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