List of articles in "Disease" category - Page 373

Paraproteinemia or monoclonal gammopathy is the presence of excessive amounts of paraprotein or single monoclonal gammaglobulin in the blood. It is usually due to an underlying immunoproliferative disorder.It is sometimes […]

Heat syncope is fainting as a result of overheating (syncope is the medical term for fainting). It is another stage in the same process as heat stroke it occurs under […]

A single vehicle collision or single-vehicle accident is as the name implies a type of road traffic collision in which only one vehicle is involved. Included in this category are […]

Congenital umbilical hernia is a congenital malformation of the umbilicus. Among adults it is three times more common in women than in men; among children the ratio is roughly equal. […]

Phakomatoses (or neuro-oculo-cutaneous syndromes) are multisystem disorders that have characteristic central nervous system ocular and cutaneous lesions of variable severity.These tissues have a common ectodermal origin.

Keratoderma is a hornlike skin condition.

Cartilage–hair hypoplasia (CHH) also known as McKusick type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia is a rare form of short-limbed dwarfism due to skeletal dysplasia. It was first reported in 1965 by McKusick et […]

Dyskeratosis congenita (DKC) also called Zinsser-Cole-Engman syndrome is a rare progressive congenital disorder that in some ways resembles premature aging (similar to progeria). The disease mainly affects the integumentary system […]

Diamond–Blackfan anemia (DBA) also known as Blackfan–Diamond anemia and Inherited erythroblastopenia is a congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy. DBA patients have low red blood cell counts (anemia). […]

Pilocytic astrocytoma or juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma or cystic cerebellar astrocytoma (and its variant juvenile pilomyxoid astrocytoma) is a neoplasm of the brain that occurs more often in children and young […]