List of articles in "Disease" category - Page 159

Fetal-maternal hemorrhage is the loss of fetal blood cells into the maternal circulation. It takes place in normal pregnancies as well as when there are obstetric or trauma related complications […]

Madarosis is the absence or loss of the eyelashes (and sometimes the eyebrows) either as a congenital condition or as a result of an infection.E.g. Leprosyalopecia totalis etc.Madarosis is the […]

Kaposi’s sarcoma (/kəˈpoʊsiːz sɑrˈkoʊmə/; KS) is a tumor caused by human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8 also known as Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus KSHV). It was originally described by Moritz Kaposi a Hungarian […]

Hyper-IgM syndrome type 4 is a form of Hyper IgM syndrome which is a defect in class switch recombination downstream of the AICDA gene that does not impair somatic hypermutation.

Hyper-IgM syndrome type 3 is a form of Hyper IgM syndrome characterized by mutations of the CD40 gene. In this type B cells cannot receive the signal from T cells […]

Psychogenic pain also called psychalgia is physical pain that is caused increased or prolonged by mental emotional or behavioral factors.Headache back pain or stomach pain are some of the most […]

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—also referred to as motor neurone disease (MND) and sometimes referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease in the United States—is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It […]

In urologic pathology high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia abbreviated HGPIN is an abnormality of prostatic glands and believed to precede the development of prostate adenocarcinoma (the most common form of prostate […]

In urologic pathology atypical small acinar proliferation abbreviated ASAP is a collection of small prostatic glands on prostate biopsy whose significance is uncertain and cannot be determined to be benign […]

Selenium deficiency is relatively rare in healthy well-nourished individuals. Few cases in humans have been reported.