3 Terms
Contributors in Diseases
Diseases
Interstitial cystitis
Health care; Diseases
A condition of the bladder occurring predominantly in women, with an inflammatory lesion, usually in the vertex, and involving the entire thickness of the wall, appearing as a small patch of brownish ...
Decompression sickness
Health care; Diseases
A condition occurring as a result of exposure to a rapid fall in ambient pressure. Gases, nitrogen in particular, come out of solution and form bubbles in body fluid and blood. These gas bubbles ...
Freemartinism
Health care; Diseases
A condition occurring in dizygotic twins of different sexes in cattle, when anastomoses of placental vessels permit interchange of hormones and cells during foetal life. The female calf is a sterile ...
Xanthomatosis
Health care; Diseases
A condition of morphologic change in which there is accumulation of lipids in the large foam cells of tissues. It is the cutaneous manifestation of lipidosis in which plasma fatty acids and ...
Osteomalacia
Health care; Diseases
A condition marked by softening of the bones (due to impaired mineralization, with excess accumulation of osteoid), with pain, tenderness, muscular weakness, anorexia, and loss of weight, resulting ...
Transmissible gastroenteritis of swine
Health care; Diseases
A condition of chronic gastroenteritis in adult pigs and fatal gastroenteritis in piglets caused by a coronavirus.
Osteochondromatosis
Health care; Diseases
A condition marked by the presence of multiple osteochondromas.
