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| x Motor neuron disease |
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Muscle atrophy |
The motor neurone diseases (or motor neuron diseases) (MND) are a group of neurological disorders that selecively affect motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general...
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| x Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis |
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune mediated disease of the brain. It usually occurs following a viral infection but may appear following vaccination, bacterial or parasitic infection, or even appear spontaneously. As it...
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| x Arthritis |
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Cannabis |
Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body.
There are different forms of arthritis and each has a different cause. The most common form of...
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| x Aphasia |
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Aphasia (pronounced /əˈfeɪʒə/) is a language disorder in which there is an impairment (but not loss) of speech and of comprehension of speech. The term dysphasia has also been used, although in modern times aphasia is used much more commonly,...
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| x Albinism |
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Albinism (from Latin albus, "white"; see extended etymology, also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis) is a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a partial (in hypomelanism, also known as hypomelanosis) or total ...
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| x Blindness |
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Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.
Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and...
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| x Bipolar disorder |
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Carbamazepine |
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, manic depressive disorder or bipolar affective disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated...
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| x Bacterial vaginosis |
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Unsafe sex | Abnormal vaginal discharge | Clindamycin |
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common cause of vaginal infection. For grammatical reasons, some people prefer to call it vaginal bacteriosis. It is not generally considered to be a sexually transmitted infection (see causes below). BV is...
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| IUD contraception | Dyspareunia | Antibiotic | |||
| Pregnancy | Vaginal odor | Tinidazole | |||
| Sexually transmitted disease | Asymptomatic | Metronidazole | |||
| Menopause | Vaginal tenderness | ||||
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| x Bubonic plague |
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Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis (Pasteurella pestis). Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents (most notably rats) and spread to humans via fleas. Plague is notorious throughout history,...
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| x Catatonia |
Catatonia is a syndrome of psychic and motoric disturbances. Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum first described it in 1874: Die Katatonie oder das Spannungirresein (Catatonia or Tension Insanity). In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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| x Cardiac arrhythmia |
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Cardiac arrhythmia (also dysrhythmia) is a term for any of a large and heterogeneous group of conditions in which there is abnormal electrical activity in the heart. The heart beat may be too fast or too slow, and may be regular or irregular.
Some...
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| x Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease or CJD (IPA pronunciation: /ˈkrɔɪtsfɛlt ˈyɑkɔp/) is a degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is very rare, incurable, and invariably fatal. Among the types of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy found...
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| x Chickenpox |
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Chickenpox or chicken pox is a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It generally starts with a vesicular skin rash appearing in two or three waves, mainly on the body and head rather than the hands...
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| x Coronary heart disease |
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Coronary artery disease (CAD)(or atherosclerotic heart disease) is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the coronary arteries that supply the myocardium (the muscle of the heart) with oxygen and nutrients....
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| x Cretinism |
Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones (hypothyroidism) or from prolonged nutritional deficiency of iodine.
The term cretin describes a person so affected,...
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| x Chagas disease |
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Chagas disease (Portuguese: doença de Chagas, Spanish: enfermedad de Chagas-Mazza, mal de Chagas in both languages; also called American trypanosomiasis) is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi...
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| x Chlamydia |
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Unsafe sex | Low back pain | Ofloxacin |
Chlamydia infection (from the Greek, χλαμύδος meaning "cloak") is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in humans caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The term Chlamydia infection can also refer to infection caused by any species...
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| Multiple sexual partners | Penile discharge | Amoxicillin | |||
| Prostitution | Vaginal bleeding | Erythromycin | |||
| Dysuria | Doxycycline | ||||
| Anal discharge | Azithromycin | ||||
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| x Candidiasis |
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Immunodeficiency | Blister | Antifungal drug |
Candidiasis or thrush is a fungal infection (mycosis) of any of the Candida species, of which Candida albicans is the most common. Candidiasis encompasses infections that range from superficial, such as oral thrush and vaginitis, to systemic and...
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| Immunosuppressive drug | Vaginal tenderness | Nystatin | |||
| Diabetes mellitus | Rash | ||||
| Steroid | Pruritus | ||||
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| x Color blindness |
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Brain damage |
Color blindness, or Colour blindness , a color vision deficiency, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain...
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| x Cholera |
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Diarrhea | Tetracycline |
Cholera, sometimes known as Asiatic or epidemic cholera, is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission to humans occurs through eating food or drinking water contaminated with...
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| x Cerebral arteriovenous malformation |
Cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a malformed collection of blood vessels within the brain, characterized by tangle(s) of veins and arteries. While an arteriovenous malformation can occur elsewhere in the body, this article discusses...
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| x Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease |
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Family History of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease | Hammer toe |
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), known also as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN), Hereditary Sensorimotor Neuropathy (HSMN), or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy, is a heterogeneous inherited disorder of nerves (neuropathy) that is...
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| x 22q11.2 deletion syndrome |
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Family History of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome | Autoimmune Disease |
22q11.2 deletion syndrome, which causes disabilities including Velocardiofacial Syndrome, DiGeorge Syndrome, conotruncal anomaly face syndrome, Congenital Thymic Aplasia, Strong Syndrome, Thymic hypoplasia, and DiGeorge anomaly is a syndrome caused...
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| Congenital heart disease | |||||
| Growth hormone deficiency | |||||
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| x Down syndrome |
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Personal history of having a child with Down syndrome | Brushfield spots |
Down syndrome, Down's syndrome, or trisomy 21 is a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British doctor who described the syndrome in 1866. The disorder was...
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| Advancing maternal age | Hypotonia | ||||
| Being carriers of the genetic translocation for Down syndrome | Mental retardation | ||||
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| x Dyslexia |
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Dyslexia is a learning disability that makes itself manifest primarily as a difficulty with the visual notation of speech or written language, particularly with reading the various man-made writing systems. It is separate and distinct from reading...
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| x Clinical depression |
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Major depressive disorder (also known as clinical depression, major depression, unipolar depression, or unipolar disorder) is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and loss of interest or...
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| x Endocarditis |
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Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. It usually involves the heart valves (native or prosthetic valves). Other structures which may be involved include the interventricular septum, the chordae tendinae,...
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| x Expressive aphasia |
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Agrammatism |
Expressive aphasia, known as Broca's aphasia in clinical neuropsychology and agrammatic aphasia in cognitive neuropsychology, is an aphasia caused by damage to or developmental issues in anterior regions of the brain, including (but not limited to)...
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| x Epilepsy |
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Carbamazepine |
Epilepsy (from the Greek επιληψία /epili΄psia/ ) is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in...
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| x Essential tremor |
Essential tremor (ET) is a progressive neurological disorder whose most recognizable feature is a tremor of the arms that is apparent during voluntary movements such as eating and writing. This type of tremor is often referred to as "kinetic tremor....
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| x Goitre |
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A goitre (BrE), or goiter (AmE) (Latin gutteria, struma), also called a bronchocele, is a swelling in the thyroid gland, which can lead to a swelling of the neck or larynx.
They are classified in different ways:
Other type of classification:...
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| x Guillain-Barré syndrome |
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) (French pronunciation: [ɡiˈlɛ̃ baˈʁe]; in English, pronounced /ˈɡiːlæn ˈbɑreɪ/, /ɡiːˈlæn bəˈreɪ/, etc.) is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), an autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral...
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| x Hypoglycemia |
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Hypoglycemia or hypoglycaemia is the medical term for a pathologic state produced by a lower than normal level of blood glucose. The term hypoglycemia literally means "under-sweet blood" (Gr. hypo-, glykys, haima).
Hypoglycemia can produce a variety...
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| x Hyperthyroidism |
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Hyperthyroidism is the term for overactive tissue within the thyroid gland, resulting in overproduction and thus an excess of circulating free thyroid hormones: thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), or both. Thyroid hormone is important at a...
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| x Hemiparesis |
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Hemiparesis is weakness on one side of the body. Contrast with Hemiplegia, which is total paralysis of the arm, leg, and trunk on the same side of the body. Hemiparesis is generally caused by lesions of the corticospinal tract, which runs down from...
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| x Erectile dysfunction |
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Tobacco smoking | Sildenafil |
Erectile dysfunction (ED or "male impotence") is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance.
An erection occurs as a hydraulic effect due to...
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| x Interstitial cystitis |
Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (commonly abbreviated to "IC/PBS"), is a urinary bladder disease of unknown cause characterised by pain associated with urination (dysuria), urinary frequency (as often as every 10 minutes), urgency,...
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| x Inclusion body myositis |
Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) is an inflammatory muscle disease, characterized by slowly progressive weakness and wasting of both distal and proximal muscles, most apparent in the muscles of the arms and legs. In sporadic inclusion body...
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| x Kwashiorkor |
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Kwashiorkor is a virulent form of childhood malnutrition characterized by edema, irritability, anorexia, ulcerating dermatoses, and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates. The presence of edema caused by poor nutrition defines kwashiorkor. The...
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| x Lassa fever |
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Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria located in the Yedseram river valley at the south end of Lake Chad. Clinical cases of the disease had been known for over a decade...
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| x Learning disability |
In the United States and Canada, the term learning disability is used to refer to psychological and neurological conditions that affect a person's communicative capacities and potential to be taught effectively. The term includes such conditions as...
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| x Systemic lupus erythematosus |
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Fever | Immunosuppressive drug |
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus, pronounced sɪˈstɛmɪk ˈluːpəs ˌɛrəˌθiməˈtoʊsəs (help·info)) is a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disease that can affect any part of the body. As occurs in other autoimmune diseases, the immune system...
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| Fatigue | Corticosteroid | ||||
| Malaise | |||||
| Myalgia | |||||
| Malar rash | |||||
| x Lung cancer |
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Tobacco smoking | Dyspnea | Radiation therapy |
Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs. The vast majority of primary lung cancers are carcinomas of...
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| Passive smoking | Hemoptysis | Surgery | |||
| Personal history of lung cancer | Cough | Chemotherapy | |||
| Air pollution | Chest pain | Targeted therapy | |||
| Exposure to asbestos | Cachexia | Adjuvant | |||
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| x Leukemia |
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Genetic disorder | Headache | Stem cell transplantation |
Leukemia (British English: leukaemia) (Greek leukos λευκός, "white"; aima αίμα, "blood") is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood...
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| Human T-lymphotropic virus | Infection | Radiation therapy | |||
| Down syndrome | Sleep hyperhidrosis | Immunotherapy | |||
| Chemotherapy | Dizziness | Chemotherapy | |||
| Environmental exposure to carcinogens | Bone pain | ||||
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| x Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome |
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Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is a rare autoimmune disorder which affects voltage-gated calcium channels on the pre-synaptic membrane of the nerve-muscle (neuromuscular) junction. The inhibition of the voltage-gated calcium channels...
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| x Lymphedema |
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Lymphedema, also spelled lymphoedema, also known as lymphatic obstruction, is a condition of localized fluid retention caused by a compromised lymphatic system. The lymphatic system (often referred to as the body's "second" circulatory system)...
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| x Muscular dystrophy |
Muscular dystrophy (abbreviated MD) refers to a group of genetic, hereditary muscle diseases that weaken the muscles that move the human body. Muscular dystrophies are characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins...
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| x Myasthenia gravis |
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Myasthenia gravis (literally "serious muscle-weakness"; from Greek μύς "muscle", ἀσθένεια "weakness", and Latin gravis "serious"; abbreviated MG) is a neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability. It is an...
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| x Mania |
Mania (from Greek μανία and that from μαίνομαι - mainomai, "to rage, to be furious") is a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood, energy, unusual thought patterns and sometimes psychosis. There are several possible causes...
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| x Malaria |
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Rigor | Antimalarial drug |
Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Each year, there are approximately 350–500 million cases of malaria,...
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| x Meconium aspiration syndrome |
Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS, alternatively "Neonatal aspiration of meconium") occurs when infants take meconium into their lungs during or before delivery. Meconium is the first stool of an infant, composed of materials ingested during the...
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| x Migraine |
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Migraine is a neurological syndrome characterized by altered bodily perceptions, headaches, and nausea. Physiologically, the migraine headache is a neurological condition more common to women than to men. The word migraine was borrowed from Old...
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| x Neuromyotonia |
Neuromyotonia, also known as Isaacs' Syndrome, is spontaneous muscular activity resulting from repetitive motor unit action potentials of peripheral origin.
It develops as a result of both acquired or hereditary diseases. Acquired form is more...
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| x Narcolepsy |
Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder, or dyssomnia. The condition is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in which a person experiences extreme fatigue and possibly falls asleep at inappropriate times, such as whilst at work or at...
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| x Nitrogen narcosis |
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Narcosis while diving (nitrogen narcosis, inert gas narcosis, raptures of the deep, Martini effect) is a reversible alteration in consciousness that occurs whilst scuba diving at depth. It produces a state similar to alcohol intoxication or nitrous...
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| x Osteoporosis |
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Teriparatide |
Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous proteins in bone is altered....
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| x Optic neuritis |
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Optic neuritis is the inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision.
The optic nerve comprises axons that emerge from the retina of the eye and carry visual information to the primary visual nuclei, most of...
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| x Phenylketonuria |
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Microcephaly |
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by a deficiency in the enzyme hepatic phenylalanine hydroxylase. This enzyme is necessary to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine to the amino acid tyrosine. When PAH...
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| x Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia |
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Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus, Pneumocystis jirovecii. This species of fungus is specific to humans. It has not been shown to infect other animals while other species of Pneumocystis that...
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| x Psychosis |
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Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή "psyche", for mind or soul, and -ωσις "-osis", for abnormal condition), with adjective psychotic, literally means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as...
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