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A disease or illness described as a physical disorder likely impacts the musculoskeletal system and lacks an inciting injury. Examples may include webbed toes , peau deficit disorder, arthritis , or ataxia , though the latter two may also reasonably be called an immune disorder and a neurological disorder, respectively.
A large Canadian community survey revealed that the most common medically unexplained symptoms are musculoskeletal pain, ear, nose, and throat symptoms, abdominal pain and gastrointestinal symptoms, fatigue, and dizziness. [4] The term MUPS can also be used to refer to syndromes whose etiology remains contested, including chronic fatigue ...
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a fictional character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of a literary allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of ...
A chronic condition (also known as chronic disease or chronic illness) is a health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time. The term chronic is often applied when the course of the disease lasts for more than three months. Common chronic diseases include diabetes ...
The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include: Diseases of neonates and children younger than five years Gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum
Chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome. CFS. Chronic fatigue syndrome. CGBD. Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration. CH. Cluster headache. CHARGE syndrome. Coloboma of the eye, heart defects, atresia of the nasal choanae, retarded growth & or development, genital abnormalities, ear abnormalities.
diastolic blood pressure drop of >15mmHg on raising arm. McBurney's point. Charles McBurney. surgery. appendicitis. 2/3 of the way lateral on a line from umbilicus to anterior superior iliac spine (corresponds to junction of vermiform appendix and cecum) McConnell's sign. M.V. McConnell. cardiology.
Signs and symptoms are the observed or detectable signs, and experienced symptoms of an illness, injury, or condition. Signs are objective and externally observable; symptoms are a person's reported subjective experiences. [1] A sign for example may be a higher or lower temperature than normal, raised or lowered blood pressure or an abnormality ...