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Disease or medical condition list
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A disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfuntion. This type is meant for human diseases and medical...
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| Autism |
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Autism is a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication and causes restricted and repetitive behavior, all starting before a child is three years old. This set of signs distinguishes autism from milder autism...
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| Motor neuron disease |
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Cause Of Death | Muscle atrophy |
The motor neurone diseases (or motor neuron diseases) (MND) are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neurone, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general...
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| Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis |
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune mediated disease of the brain. It usually occurs following a viral infection but may appear following vaccination, bacteria or parasitic infection, or even appear spontaneously. As it involves...
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| Arthritis |
Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a group of conditions involving damage to the joint of the body. Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in people older than fifty-five years.
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| Aphasia |
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Symptom |
Aphasia (from Greek, aphatos : 'speechless'), also known as aphemia, is a loss of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to injury to brain areas specialized for these functions, Broca's area, which governs language production, or...
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| Albinism |
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Albinism (from Latin albus, "white"; see extended etymology) is a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a partial (in hypomelanism, also known as hypomelanosis) or total (amelanism or amelanosis) lack of melanin pigment in the...
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| Blindness |
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Quotation Subject |
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.
Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and...
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| Bipolar disorder |
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Carbamazepine |
Bipolar disorder is not a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood, clinically referred to as mania or, if milder, hypomania. Individuals who experience manic...
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| Bacterial vaginosis |
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common cause of vaginal infection (vaginitis). For grammatical reasons, some people prefer to call it vaginal bacteriosis. It is not generally considered to be a sexually transmitted infection (see causes below)....
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| Bubonic plague |
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Cause Of Death |
Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis (Pasteurella pestis). Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents (most notably rats) and spread to humans via fleas. Plague is notorious throughout history,...
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| Catatonia |
Catatonia is a syndrome of psychic and motoric-disturbances. In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV) it is not recognized as a separate disorder, but is...
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| Cardiac arrhythmia |
Cardiac arrhythmia (also dysrhythmia) is a term for any of a large and heterogeneous group of conditions in which there is abnormal electrical activity in the heart. The heart beat may be too fast or too slow, and may be regular or irregular.
Some...
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| Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a very rare and incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is ultimately fatal. Among the types of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy found in humans, it is the most common.
The disease...
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| Chickenpox |
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Chickenpox is a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It generally begins with conjunctival and catarrhal symptoms and then characteristic spots appearing in two or three waves, mainly on the body...
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| Coronary heart disease |
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Coronary artery disease (CAD) (or atherosclerotic heart disease) is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the arteries that supply the myocardium (the muscle of the heart) with oxygen and nutrients. It is...
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| Cretinism |
Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism).
The term cretin refers to a person so affected, but, like many similar words, such as spastic, idiot...
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| Chagas disease |
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Chagas disease (, , mal de Chagas in both languages; also called American trypanosomiasis) is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellate protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi is commonly transmitted to humans and other mammals by an insect...
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| Chlamydia |
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Sexually transmitted disease |
Chlamydia infection (from the Greek, χλαμύδος meaning "cloak") is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in humans caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The term Chlamydia infection can also refer to infection caused by any species...
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| Candidiasis |
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Candidiasis, commonly called yeast infection or thrush, is a fungal infection (mycosis) of any of the Candida species, of which Candida albicans is the most common..
Candidiasis encompasses infections that range from superficial, such as oral...
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| Color blindness |
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Color blindness, a color vision deficiency in animals, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the color that others can distinguish. It is most often of gene nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due...
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| Cholera |
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Cause Of Death | Diarrhea | Tetracycline |
Cholera, sometimes known as Asiatic cholera or epidemic cholera, is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission to humans occurs through ingesting contaminated water or food. The major reservoir for cholera...
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| Cerebral arteriovenous malformation |
Cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a malformed collection of blood vessel within the brain, characterized by tangle(s) of vein and arteries. While an arteriovenous malformation can occur elsewhere in the body, this article discusses...
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| Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease |
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), known also as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN), Hereditary Sensorimotor Neuropathy (HSMN), or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy, is a heterogeneous inherited disorder of nerve (neuropathy) that is...
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| 22q11.2 deletion syndrome |
22q11.2 deletion syndrome, also known as Velocardiofacial Syndrome, DiGeorge Syndrome, Congenital Thymic Aplasia, and Strong Syndrome is a disorder caused by the deletion of a small piece of chromosome 22. The deletion occurs near the middle of the...
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| Down syndrome |
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Down syndrome, Down's syndrome, or trisomy 21 is a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British doctor who described the syndrome in 1866. The disorder was...
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| Dyslexia |
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Dyslexia is considered to be a learning disability. It manifests primarily as a difficulty with written language, particularly with reading and spelling. It is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a...
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| Clinical depression |
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Major depressive disorder, also known as major depression, unipolar depression, clinical depression, or simply depression, is a mental disorder characterized by a pervasive low mood and loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The diagnosis...
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| Endocarditis |
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Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. It usually involves the heart valve (native or prosthetic valves). Other structures which may be involved include the interventricular septum, the chordae tendinae,...
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| Expressive aphasia |
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Agrammatism |
Expressive aphasia, known as Broca's aphasia in clinical neuropsychology and agrammatic aphasia in cognitive neuropsychology, is an aphasia caused by damage to or developmental issues in anterior regions of the brain, including (but not limited to)...
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| Epilepsy |
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Cause Of Death | Carbamazepine |
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.About 50 million...
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| Essential tremor |
Essential tremor (ET) is a progressive neurological disease whose most recognizable feature is a tremor of the arm that is apparent during voluntary movements such as eating and writing. This type of tremor is often referred to as "kinetic tremor"....
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| Goitre |
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A goitre (BrE), or goiter (AmE) (Latin struma), also called a bronchocele, is a swelling in the neck (just below the Adam's apple or larynx) due to an enlarged thyroid gland.
They are classified in different ways:
Other type of classification:
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| Guillain-Barré syndrome |
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) (in French , in English , , etc.) is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), an autoimmune disease affecting the peripheral nervous system, usually triggered by an acute infectious process. It is...
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| Hypoglycemia |
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Hypoglycemia (Hypoglycaemia in British English) is the medical term for a pathologic state produced by a lower than normal level of glucose (sugar) in the blood. The term hypoglycemia literally means "under-sweet blood" (Gr. hypo-, glykys, haima)....
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| Hyperthyroidism |
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Hyperthyroidism is the term for overactive tissue within the thyroid gland, resulting in overproduction and thus an excess of circulating free thyroid hormones: thyroxine (T), triiodothyronine (T), or both. The term is also often used more loosely...
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| Hemiparesis |
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Hemiparesis is the partial paralysis of one side of the body. It is generally caused by lesions of the corticospinal tract, which runs down from the cortical neuron of the frontal lobe to the motor neurons of the spinal cord (see the second...
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| Erectile dysfunction |
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Erectile dysfunction (ED or (male) impotence) is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis. There are various underlying causes, such as cardiovascular leakage and diabetes, many of which are...
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| Interstitial cystitis |
Interstitial cystitis (commonly abbreviated to "IC") is a urinary bladder disease of unknown cause characterised by urinary frequency (as often as every 10 minutes), urgency, pressure and/or pain in the bladder and/or pelvis. Pain typically...
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| Inclusion body myositis |
Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) is an inflammatory muscle disease, characterized by slowly progressive weakness and wasting of the distal and proximal muscles, most apparent in the muscles of the arm and legs. In sporadic inclusion body...
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| Kwashiorkor |
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Kwashiorkor is a type of malnutrition with controversial causes, but it is commonly believed to be caused by insufficient protein intake. It usually affects children aged 1–4 years, although it also occurs in older children and adults. Jamaican...
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| Lassa fever |
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Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic fever first described in 1969 in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria located in the Yedseram river valley at the south end of Lake Chad. Clinical cases of the disease had been known for over a decade...
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| Learning disability |
In the United States and Canada, the term learning disability is used to refer to psychological and neurological conditions that affect a person's communicative capacities and potential to be taught effectively. The term includes such conditions as...
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| Systemic lupus erythematosus |
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Cause Of Death | Myalgia | Corticosteroid |
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus, ) is a chronic autoimmune disease that can be fatal, though with recent medical advances, fatalities are becoming increasingly rare. As with other autoimmune diseases, the immune system attacks the body’s...
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| Lung cancer |
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Cause Of Death | Radiation therapy |
Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs. The vast majority of primary lung cancers are carcinomas of the lung,...
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| Leukemia |
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Leukemia or leukaemia (Greek leukos λευκός, "white"; aima αίμα, "blood") is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes)....
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| Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome |
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Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is a rare autoimmune disorder which affects calcium channels of the nerve-muscle (neuromuscular) junction. The etiology of LEMS may resemble myasthenia gravis, but there are substantial differences between...
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| Lymphedema |
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Lymphedema, also spelled lymphoedema, also known as lymphatic obstruction, is a condition of localized fluid retention caused by a compromised lymphatic system. The lymphatic system (often referred to as the body's "second" circulatory system)...
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