Epidemic typhus (also called camp fever jail fever hospital fever ship fever famine fever putrid fever petechial fever Epidemic louse-borne typhus and louse-borne typhus) is a form of typhus so […]
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Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy (literally heart muscle disease) is the measurable deterioration of the function of the myocardium (the heart muscle) for any reason usually leading to heart failure; common symptoms are dyspnea […]
Tetanus
Tetanus (from Ancient Greek: τέτανος tetanos “taut” and τείνειν teinein to stretch) is a medical condition characterized by a prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibers. The primary symptoms are caused […]
Marfan syndrome
Marfan syndrome (also called Marfan’s syndrome) is a genetic disorder caused by the misfolding of the protein fibrillin-1. Fibrillin-1 is coded by the gene FBN1.People with Marfan tend to be […]
Asthma
Asthma (from the Greek ἅσθμα ásthma panting) is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms reversible airflow obstruction and bronchospasm. Common symptoms include […]
Diabetes insipidus
Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a condition characterized by excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine with reduction of fluid intake having no effect on the concentration […]
Leprosy
Leprosy also known as Hansen’s disease (HD) is a chronic infection caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Initially infections are without symptoms and typically remain this way […]
Conjunctivitis
Conjunctivitis (also called pink eye in America or madras eye in India) is inflammation of the conjunctiva (the outermost layer of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids). […]
Convulsion
A convulsion is a medical condition where body muscles contract and relax rapidly and repeatedly resulting in an uncontrolled shaking of the body. Because a convulsion is often a symptom […]
Fatal familial insomnia
Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrPC but can […]