List of articles in "Disease" category - Page 440

Klumpke’s paralysis (or Klumpke’s palsy or Dejerine-Klumpke palsy) is a variety of partial palsy of the lower roots of the brachial plexus. The brachial plexus is a network of spinal […]

A bite is a wound received from the teeth of an animal including humans. Animals may bite in self-defence in an attempt to prey one food and as part of […]

Diabetic nephropathy (nephropatia diabetica) also known as Kimmelstiel–Wilson syndrome or nodular diabetic glomerulosclerosis and intercapillary glomerulonephritis is a progressive kidney disease caused by angiopathy of capillaries in the kidney glomeruli. […]

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a class of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma which is a type of cancer of the immune system. Unlike most non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (which are generally B-cell related) […]

Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome (JLNS) is a type of long QT syndrome associated with severe bilateral hearing loss. Long QT syndrome causes the cardiac muscle to take longer than usual […]

Apert syndrome is a form of acrocephalosyndactyly a congenital disorder characterized by malformations of the skull face hands and feet. It is classified as a branchial arch syndrome affecting the […]

In obstetrics antepartum haemorrhage (APH) also prepartum hemorrhage is bleeding from the vagina during pregnancy from the 24th week (sometimes defined as from the 20th week) gestational age to term.It […]

Striae is also a general term referring to thin narrow grooves or channels or a thin line or band especially if several of them are parallel or close together.Stretch marks […]

Moyamoya syndrome is a disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted. Blood flow is blocked by the constriction and also by blood clots (thrombosis).A collateral circulation develops […]

Avascular necrosis (also osteonecrosis bone infarction aseptic necrosis ischemic bone necrosis and AVN) is a disease where there is cellular death (necrosis) of bone components due to interruption of the […]