Bright’s disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis. The term is no longer used as diseases are […]
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Bacteremia
Bacteremia (also bacteraemia or bacteræmia) is the presence of bacteria in the blood.
Hyperopia
Hyperopia commonly known as being farsighted (American English) being longsighted (British English) or hypermetropia is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball […]
Chancroid
Chancroid (also known as soft chancre and ulcus molle) is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection characterized by painful sores on the genitalia. Chancroid is known to spread from one individual […]
Mastitis
Mastitis is the inflammation of breast tissue. S. aureus is the most common etiological organism responsible but S. epidermidis and streptococci are occasionally isolated as well.Mastitis can be classified as […]
Weight loss
Weight loss in the context of medicine health or physical fitness is a reduction of the total body mass due to a mean loss of fluid body fat or adipose […]
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy or Erb’s muscular dystrophy is an autosomal class of muscular dystrophy that is similar but distinct from Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker’s muscular dystrophy. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy […]
Concussion
Concussion from the Latin concutere (to shake violently) or concussus (action of striking together) is the most common type of traumatic brain injury. The terms mild brain injury mild traumatic […]
Colic
Colic (from Greek kolikos relative to the colon) or cholic is a form of pain which starts and stops abruptly. It occurs due to muscular contractions of a hollow tube […]
Shaken baby syndrome
Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a triad of medical findings: subdural hematoma retinal hemorrhage and cerebral edema from which some physicians consistent with current medical understanding infer child abuse caused […]