Dystrophy, cone: A disease of the cones, the specialized light-sensitive cells that act as photoreceptors in the retina of the eye, providing sharp central vision and color vision.
Dystrophy is any condition of abnormal development, usually due to malnutrition, especially denoting the degeneration of muscles.
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Dystrophy, Asphyxiating Thoracic Causes, Symptoms and Treatment and Related Disorders ...
Dystrophy, Asphyxiating Thoracic
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Leukodystrophy
Leukodystrophy is not a single condition but rather refers to a group of conditions that mainly affect the white (‘leuko') matter of the brain and the spinal cord.
Cone Dystrophy, Peripheral
Rods and cones in the retina respond to light and send their responses to the brain which is a vital link in the mechanism of seeing.
Leukodystrophy, Metachromatic
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Leukodystrophy
(Also Called 'CACH (Central Hypomyelination)', 'Central Hypomyelination', 'Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis')
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Leukodystrophy Definition
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Leukodystrophy is a rare disease that results in the progressive decline of the myelin, or 'white matter,' of the brain.
Leukodystrophy, Krabbe
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Definition of medical terminology for Leukodystrophy, Krabbe.
Fuchs' dystrophy
Alternate Names : Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy, Fuchs' corneal dystrophy
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Fuchs' dystrophy
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Fuchs' (pronounced Fooks) dystrophy is an eye disease in which cells lining the inner surface of the cornea slowly start to die off. The disease usually affects both eyes.
Fuchs' Dystrophy (Corneal Disease)
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Leukodystrophy refers to progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain due to imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath, the fatty covering that acts as an insulator around nerve fiber.
Osteodystrophy is a disorder in which a person suffers from a variety of bone disorders. Typical disorders associated with osteodystrophy include osteomalacia, osteoporosis, osteosclerosis, and osteitis fibrosa.
Muscular dystrophy
Huntington's disease
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of rare inherited muscle diseases in which muscle fibers are unusually susceptible to damage. Muscles, primarily your voluntary muscles, become progressively weaker.
Myotonic dystrophy
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Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a broad term that describes a genetic (inherited) disorder of the muscles. Muscular dystrophy causes the muscles in the body to become very weak. The muscles break down and are replaced with fatty deposits over time.
Muscular Dystrophy
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(ds´trf), any of several inherited diseases characterized by progressive wasting of the skeletal muscles. There are five main forms of the disease.
Duchenne dystrophy (the most common)
Becker (a milder form than Duchenne)
Myotonic muscular dystrophy (can have its onset in late adulthood)
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Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of rare diseases that cause muscle fibers to weaken and break down. MD affects the skeletal or voluntary muscles that control movement in the arms, legs, and trunk.
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move. People with MD have incorrect or missing information in their genes, which prevents them from making the proteins they need for healthy muscles.
Muscular dystrophy is a group of disorders that involve muscle weakness and loss of muscle tissue that get worse over time.
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Muscular dystrophy describes a group of genetic muscle diseases that cause muscle weakness.
What is going on in the body?
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic (inherited) condition that gradually causes the muscles to weaken. This leads to an increasing level of disability.
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Manzur AY, Kinali M, Muntoni F; Update on the management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Arch Dis Child. 2008 Nov;93(11):986-90. Epub 2008 Jul 30. [abstract]
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Adrenoleukodystrophy, autosomal, neonatal form: A rare inherited disorder involving the adrenal glands, testes and certain parts of the brain (white matter).
Adrenoleukodystrophy (uh-dree-noh-loo-koh-dis-truh-fee) is a type of hereditary (genetic) condition that causes damage to the membrane surrounding nerve cells in your brain (myelin sheath).
Muscular Dystrophy: Any of various muscle wasting diseases
Muscular Dystrophy: Muscular dystrophy (MD) refers to a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal or voluntary muscles which ...
Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) was first described in the early 1900s and was originally called Schilder-Addision disease.
Adrenoleukodystrophy; Adrenomyeloneuropathy; Addison disease; Childhood cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy; ALD; Schilder-Addison Complex
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Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a rare and fatal genetic disorder that affects the nerves and adrenal glands.
Muscular Dystrophy
A general term for a group of inherited disorders which are characterized by progressive degeneration of skeletal muscles (MUSCLE, SKELETAL).
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Adrenoleukodystrophy describes any of several closely related inheritable disorders that involve the breakdown (metabolism) of certain fats (long chain fatty acids). These disorders affect the adrenal glands, nervous system, and testes.
The onset of lipodystrophy occurs in the childhood and adolescence and may occur following infections such as varicella, measles, pertussis, diphtheria, pneumonia, osteomyelitis, parotitis, infectious mononucleosis, and hepatitis.
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy comes with all of its own characteristic symptoms and is part of a larger series of muscular dystrophy conditions which affect millions of people all over the world.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an inherited disorder that involves rapidly-worsening muscle weakness.
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Oculopharyngeal dystrophy (OPD, or oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy) is an autosomal dominant disorder which appears in early middle age (sixth decade) in individuals with a mutation on the PABPN1 gene.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rapidly-worsening form of muscular dystrophy. Other muscular dystrophies (including Becker's muscular dystrophy) get worse much more slowly.
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSDS) is a severe, painful and long-lasting condition that usually involves one arm or leg.
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Genetic basis of congenital generalized lipodystrophy. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004 Feb;28(2):336-9. Review. PubMed citation
Agarwal AK, Garg A. Seipin: a mysterious protein. Trends Mol Med. 2004 Sep;10(9):440-4. Review.
Adrenoleukodystrophy
(ALD) an X-linked Demyelinating: Loss of myelin.
facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
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Partial atrophy of tissue or an organ as a result of imperfect cell nutrition.
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Wasting, usually due to defective metabolism or nutrition.
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Lipodystrophy Syndrome
Lipodystrophy syndrome is a disturbance of lipid (fat) metabolism that involves the partial or total absence of fat and often the abnormal deposition and distribution of fat in the body.
lipodystrophy
lp dstrfi noun a disorder of lipid metabolism
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Osteodystrophy - Osteodystrophy is a combination of bone disorders that is usually caused by chronic kidney failure (renal disease).
Dystrophy of the cornea (including ulceration of the corneal surface) of the eye. Wasting and ulceration of the corneal surface of the eye
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Lipodystrophy: A disturbance in the way the body produces, uses, and distributes fat. Lipodystrophy is also referred to as "buffalo hump," "protease paunch," or "Crixivan potbelly.
LIPODYSTROPHY: a syndrome that involves abnormal lipid metabolism and redistribution of body fat.
LIPOGENESIS: production of lipids (fats).
Leukodystrophy is caused by genetic defects that lead to imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that covers the axon.
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY GENETICS
The genetic defect that causes muscular dystrophy is passed from one or both parents to a child by a specific pattern of inheritance that varies from one type of muscular dystrophy to another.
Muscular dystrophy has caused a curvature of your spine called scoliosis. Scoliosis and other back problems are treated by a bone and joint specialist called an "orthopaedic surgeon".
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