21 Terms
Contributors in Diseases
Diseases
Anisometropia
Health care; Diseases
A condition of an inequality of refractive power of the two eyes.
Progressive supranuclear palsy
Health care; Diseases
A degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterised by balance difficulties; ocular motility disorders (supranuclear ophthalmoplegia); dysarthria; swallowing difficulties; and axial ...
Alzheimer disease
Health care; Diseases
A degenerative disease of the brain characterised by the insidious onset of dementia. Impairment of memory, judgement, attention span, and problem solving skills are followed by severe apraxias and a ...
Necrobiosis lipoidica
Health care; Diseases
A degenerative disease of the dermal connective tissue characterised by the development of erythematous papules or nodules in the pretibial area. The papules form plaques covered with telangiectatic ...
Factor XIII deficiency
Health care; Diseases
A deficiency of blood coagulation factor XIII or fibrin stabilising factor (FSF) that prevents blood clot formation and results in a clinical hemorrhagic diathesis.
Disease
Health care; Diseases
A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.
Afibrinogenemia
Health care; Diseases
A deficiency or absence of fibrinogen (coagulation factor I) in the blood.
