Brain
... Neurodegenerative diseases , such as Alzheimer's
disease , Parkinson's
disease , and Huntington's
disease , are caused by the gradual death of individual ...
Cancer
... malignancies , leukemia , lymphoma , Hodgkin's
disease , non-Hodgkin's lymphoma , multiple myeloma , ... , hepatic, lymphomas (such as Hodgkin's
disease ), epithelial.
Diagnosing cancer
Biopsy ... for staging, e.g. determining the extent of the
disease and whether there has been metastasis to ...
Computed axial tomography
... in the diagnosis of a large number of different
disease entities.
Cranial CT
Diagnosis of ... the lung parenchyma. For detection of airspace
disease (such as pneumonia ) or cancer , ordinary ...
Abdominal and pelvic CT
Many abdominal
disease processes require CT for proper diagnosis. The ...
Diabetes mellitus
... Longer-term complications include cardiovascular
disease (doubled risk), chronic renal failure (it is ... Long-term complications
5 Management of the
disease
5.1 Monitoring
6 Public ... in the United States alone. The Centers for
disease Control has termed the change an epidemic . The ...
Ebola
... identified, severe, often fatal infectious
disease occurring in humans and some primates caused ... area was quarantined , which soon brought the
disease back under control. This quarantine simply meant ... then contacted the United States Centers for
disease Control (CDC) for help. The CDC informed the ...
Foot and mouth disease
... Foot-and-mouth
disease (FMD), sometimes called hoof-and-mouth
disease , is a highly contagious but non-fatal viral
disease of cattle and pigs . It can also infect ...
Immune system
... of immune deficiency. Chronic granulomatous
disease , in which phagocytes have trouble destroying ... Immune Deficiency Syndrome"), an infectious
disease , caused by the HIV virus that destroys CD4 + ... Other examples of overzealous immune responses in
disease include hypersensitivities such as allergies ...
Immunology
... who had recovered from a previous bout of the
disease could nurse the sick without coming down with ... response (examples include chronic granulomatous
disease ), and autoimmunity , in which the immune system ... , rheumatoid arthritis , Hashimoto's
disease and myasthenia gravis ). Other immune system ...
Liver
... latter becomes the ligamentum venosum . In the
disease state of cirrhosis and portal hypertension , ... or hepatitis
Hemochromatosis , a hereditary
disease causing the accumulation of iron in the body, ... of the gastrointestinal tract )
Wilson's
disease , a ...
Louis Pasteur
... for his demonstration of the germ theory of
disease and his development techniques of inoculation , ... antiseptic methods in surgery .
In 1865 , a
disease called pebrine was killing great numbers of ... bacteria had spoiled and failed to induce the
disease in some chickens he was infecting with the ...
Malaria
... or marsh fever in English ) is an infectious
disease which in humans causes about 500 million ...
1 Mechanism of the
disease
2 Treatment and prevention
2.1 Prospects of
disease control
2.2 DDT controversy
3 Sickle ...
Muscle
...
4.2 Afferent leg
5 Role in health and
disease
5.1 Exercise
5.2
disease
6 The strongest human muscle
7 ... a smooth projection.
Role in health and
disease
Exercise
Exercise is often recommended as ...
Nutrition
... and to maintain the balance between health and
disease .
Also included is the idea of an optimal ... 'diseases of civilization' - diabetes , heart
disease and cancer - than Europeans, and their varied ... Journal, February 21, 2004.)
Alzheimer's
disease may be linked to B vitamin deficiencies. (See ...
Prion
... diseases (TSEs) , including scrapie (a
disease of sheep ), kuru (found in members of the ... tribe in Papua New Guinea ), Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (CJD), Chronic Wasting
disease , and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad ...
Stem cell
... stem cells have been used to treat Gunther's
disease , Hunter syndrome , Hurler syndrome , Acute ... due to spinal cord injuries , Parkinson's
disease and other illnesses.
Potential treatments ... and cures for diseases like Lou Gehrig's
disease , muscular dystrophy , and spinal cord ...
Yellow fever
... a source of several devastating epidemics.
The
disease is caused by an arbovirus of the family ... are the primary in transmission of the
disease from forest monkeys to man and in man-to-man ... and Sabethes genera.
The course of the
disease varies from an inapparent infection to an intense ...
Virus
... as the causative agent of neurological
disease in horses, could be responsible for psychiatric ... humans. The relative ability of viruses to cause
disease is described in terms of virulence .
The ... may have been very large. The damage done by this
disease may have significantly aided European attempts to ...
Vitamin
... helped prevent scurvy , a particularly deadly
disease characterized by bleeding and severe pain. In ... rice instead of polished helped prevent the
disease beriberi . The following year, Frederick ... although prolonged vitamin deficit results in a
disease state, often painful and potentially deadly. ...
X chromosome
...
1 Function
2 Role in
disease
2.1 Numerical abnormalities
2.2 Other ... active that was previously supposed.
Role in
disease
Numerical abnormalities
Klinefelter ... insensitivity syndrome
Charcot-Marie-Tooth
disease
Coffin-Lowry syndrome
...
Bacterium
... (1843-1910) described the role of bacteria as conveyors and causes of
disease or pathogens .
Originally the bacteria were considered microscopic ... environment , and animals , including humans . The role of bacteria in
disease and infection is important. Some bacteria act as pathogens and cause ...
Blood
... of carbon dioxide
3.4 Transport of hydrogen ions
4 Health and
disease
4.1 Ancient medicine
4.2 Diagnosis
4.3 Pathology
4.4 ... does oxyhemoglobin so it binds most of the hydrogen ions.
Health and
disease
Ancient medicine
Hippocratic medicine considered blood one of the ...
Bacterium
... (1843-1910) described the role of bacteria as conveyors and causes of
disease or pathogens .
Originally the bacteria were considered microscopic ... environment , and animals , including humans . The role of bacteria in
disease and infection is important. Some bacteria act as pathogens and cause ...
Eugenics
... sexual criminals, lunatics, and those suffering from an incurable
disease which would be passed on to their offspring . . ." [1] Sweden forcibly ... , it has reduced the ratio of children born with the hereditary blood
disease from 1 out of every 158 births to almost zero.
In modern bioethics ...
Extinction
... causes
2.2 Habitat degradation
2.3 Predation, competition, and
disease
2.4 Coextinction
3 Effects
4 Mass extinctions
5 Human ... causing some species to become extinct.
Predation, competition, and
disease
Coextinction
Main article: Coextinction
Effects
Mass ...
Gene therapy
... of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a
disease , and hereditary diseases in particular.
Gene therapy typically aims to ... in all the cells of the patient. The missing gene is now replaced and the
disease is cured. This technique is called gene therapy .
Three types of ...
Hepatitis B
... on. The primary method of transmission depends on the prevalence of the
disease in a given area. In low prevalence areas, such as the continental United ... unprotected sex are the primary method. In moderate prevalence areas, the
disease is predominantly spread among children. In high prevalence countries, ...
Lipase
... the gene encoding lipoprotein lipase [2] . Cholesteryl Ester Storage
disease (CESD) and Wolman
disease are both caused by mutations in the gene encoding lysosomal lipase, also ...
Marfan syndrome
... pediatrician Antoine Marfan , who first described it in 1896 . The
disease is characterized by unusually long limbs .
Contents ... which can have severe consequences on support and stability. A related
disease has been found in mice , and it is hoped that the study of mouse ...
Outbreak
... of patients and suspected carriers of the disease.
Hoof and mouth
disease (UK foot and mouth
disease ) is a major animal epidemic virus affecting the agricultural industry of ...
Robert Koch
... , which say that to establish that an organism is the cause of a
disease , it must be :
found in all cases of the
disease examined
prepared and maintained in a pure culture
capable of ...
Semen
...
1 Composition
2 Semen and transmission of
disease
3 Cultural views
4 See also
5 References
6 External ... by the female against the foreign semen.
Semen and transmission of
disease
Semen is in itself harmless on the skin or if swallowed. However, ...
Skin
...
1 Layers
2 Types
3 Functions
4 Aging and
disease
5 See also
6 External links
Layers
Skin is composed ... sebaceous glands and smooth arrector pili muscles .
Aging and
disease
As skin ages, it becomes thinner and more easily damaged. Intensifying ...
Vaccine
... of people are vaccinated it is much more difficult for an outbreak of
disease to occur, let alone spread. This effect is called herd immunity .
... - 'Thimerosal in Childhood Vaccines, Neurodevelopment Disorders, and Heart
disease in the United States', Mark Geier, M.D., Ph.D., and David Geier, B.A., ...
Virus classification
... host organism they can infect, by mode of transmission, or by the type of
disease they cause. The most useful classification is probably by the type of ... negative stranded viruses)
Family Bornaviridae - Borna
disease virus
Family Filoviridae - Ebola viruses, Marburg virus
...
Antibiotic
... previous treatments for infections, which included poisons such as strychnine , antibiotics were labelled "magic bullets": drugs which targeted
disease without harming the host. Antibiotics are not effective in viral , fungal and other nonbacterial infections, and individual antibiotics vary ...
Antibody
... alpha-globulins (1 and 2), beta-globulins (1 and 2) and gamma-globulins according to weight. Immunoglobulins are all in the gamma region. In some
disease states ( myeloma ) a very high concentration of one particular immunoglobulin will show up as a monoclonal band.
Isotypes
According to ...
Avian influenza
... seen several isolated cases where human-to-human transmission of the virus has been suspected. In one case the original carrier, who received the
disease from a bird, was held by her mother for roughly 5 days as the young girl died. Shortly afterwards, the mother became ill and perished as well. In ...
Full blood count
...
A manual count will also give information about other cells that are not normally present in peripheral blood, but may be released in certain
disease processes.
Platelets
Platelet numbers are given, as well as information about their size and the range of sizes in the blood.
...
Charles Darwin
... raising the land, then saw seashells high in the Andes .
While in South America he was laid up by an illness which may have been Chagas'
disease contracted from insect bites. For the rest of his life he suffered recurring episodes of illness and disability.
An Australian marsupial ...
Chromosome
... been left undetermined, as have a small number of unclonable gaps. [1]
Chromosomal aberrations
Some chromosome abnormalities do not cause
disease in carriers, such as translocations , or chromosomal inversions , although it may lead to a higher chance of having a child with an chromosome ...