20 Terms
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Diseases
Narcolepsy
Health care; Diseases
A condition characterised by recurrent episodes of daytime somnolence and lapses in consciousness (microsomnias) that may be associated with automatic behaviours and amnesia. cataplexy; sleep ...
Pseudomyxoma peritonei
Health care; Diseases
A condition characterised by poorly-circumscribed gelatinous masses filled with malignant mucin-secreting cells. Forty-five percent of pseudomyxomas arise from the ovary, usually in a mucinous ...
Klippel-Feil syndrome
Health care; Diseases
A condition characterised by shortness of the neck resulting from reduction in the number of vertebrae or the fusion of multiple hemivertebrae into one osseous mass. The hairline is low and the ...
Croup
Health care; Diseases
A condition characterised by resonant barking cough, hoarseness and persistant stridor and caused by allergy, foreign body, infection, or neoplasm. It occurs chiefly in infants and children.
Lithiasis
Health care; Diseases
A condition characterised by the formation of calculi and concretions in the hollow organs or ducts of the body. They occur most often in the gallbladder, kidney, and lower urinary tract.
Cushing syndrome
Health care; Diseases
A condition, more commonly seen in females, due to hyperadrenocorticism resulting from neoplasms of the adrenal cortex or the anterior lobe of the pituitary, or to prolonged excessive intake of ...
Primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
Health care; Diseases
A conditioned chiefly characterised by thickening of the skin of the head and distal extremities, deep folds and furrows of the skin of the forehead, cheeks, and scalp, seborrhea, hyperhidrosis, ...
