List of articles in "Disease" category - Page 339

Protothecosis is a disease found in dogs cats cattle and humans caused by a type of green alga known as Prototheca that lacks chlorophyll. It and its close relative Helicosporidium […]

Meningococcal disease describes infections caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (also termed meningococcus). It carries a high mortality rate if untreated. While best known as a cause of meningitis widespread […]

Chorioamnionitis is an inflammation of the fetal membranes (amnion and chorion) due to a bacterial infection. It typically results from bacteria ascending into the uterus from the vagina and is […]

Primary peritoneal cancer or carcinoma is also known as: serous surface papillary carcinoma primary peritoneal carcinoma extra-ovarian serous carcinoma primary serous papillary carcinoma psammomacarcinoma. It was historically classified under carcinoma […]

Collagenous colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease affecting the colon specifically with peak incidence in the 5th decade of life affecting women more than men. Its clinical presentation involves watery […]

Placenta accreta is a severe obstetric complication involving an abnormally deep attachment of the placenta to the myometrium (the middle muscular layer of the uterine wall) without penetrating it. Thus […]

Anorchia (or anorchism) is an XY Disorder of Sex Development in which individuals have both testes absent at birth. Within a few weeks of fertilization the embryo develops rudimentary gonads […]

Milk sickness also known as tremetol vomiting or in animals as trembles is a kind of poisoning characterized by trembling vomiting and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who ingest […]

XXXXX syndrome (also called pentasomy X or 49XXXXX) is the presence of three additional X chromosomes. Diagnosis is done by karyotyping. Approximately 25 females have been described in medical literature […]

Pneumomediastinum (from Greek pneuma – air also known as mediastinal emphysema) is a condition in which air is present in the mediastinum. First described in 1819 by René Laennec the […]