List of articles in "Disease" category - Page 556

Onchocerciasis (/ˈɒŋkɵsɜrˈsaɪ.əsɨs/ or /ˈɒŋkɵsɜrˈkaɪ.əsɨs/) also known as river blindness and Robles disease is a disease caused by infection with the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. Symptoms include severe itching bumps under […]

Orf is an exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus and occurring primarily in sheep and goats. It is also known as contagious pustular dermatitis infectious labial dermatitis ecthyma contagiosum […]

Vaginismus sometimes anglicized vaginism is the condition that affects a woman’s ability to engage in any form of vaginal penetration including sexual intercourse insertion of tampons and/or menstrual cups and […]

Tularemia (or tularaemia; also known as Pahvant Valley plague rabbit fever deer fly fever and Ohara’s fever) is a serious infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. A gram-negative […]

In medicine malingering is fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of secondary gain motives which may include financial compensation (often tied to fraud); […]

Aortic dissection occurs when a tear in the inner wall of the aorta causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta forcing the layers apart. […]

For the Belgian band see Triggerfinger. Trigger finger can also mean the finger which is used to operate the trigger of a gun or of a power tool.Trigger finger trigger […]

Tenosynovitis is the inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath (called the synovium) that surrounds a tendon. Symptoms of tenosynovitis include pain swelling and difficulty moving the particular joint where the inflammation […]

Stenosing tenosynovitis (also known as trigger finger or trigger thumb) is a painful condition caused by the inflammation (tenosynovitis) and progressive restriction of the superficial and deep flexors fibrous tendon […]

De Quervain syndrome (French pronunciation: ​[də kɛʁvɛ̃]; also known as BlackBerry thumb gamer’s thumb washerwoman’s sprain radial styloid tenosynovitis de Quervain disease de Quervain’s tenosynovitis de Quervain’s stenosing tenosynovitis mother’s […]