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  2. Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder - Wikipedia

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    Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) are a spectrum of autoimmune diseases characterized by acute inflammation of the optic nerve (optic neuritis, ON) and the spinal cord . [1] [2] [3] Episodes of ON and myelitis can be simultaneous or successive. A relapsing disease course is common, especially in untreated patients. [1] [4]

  3. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Diseases and disorders CA Cancer: CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) CAD Coronary artery disease: CADASIL: Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy CAP Community acquired pneumonia: CAPA COVID-19–associated pulmonary ...

  4. Decompression sickness - Wikipedia

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    Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression.

  5. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Disorder [30] Dotard [31] Downie: Used of people with Down Syndrome. A Dutch profanity sometimes appearing in English as "downy" and generally considered derogatory [32] Dumb: Especially when preceded by "the" [17] [22] Dummy and dumb Used of people with mental disabilities, or more generally people perceived as stupid or ignorant.

  6. Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome

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    While the disease manifests early in life in most cases, diagnosis of the disease is often quite delayed. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The symptoms that affected patients present vary, but the most common presenting symptoms are gastrointestinal issues such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, and neurologic or ocular symptoms such as ...

  7. Genetic disorder likely causes many unexplained cases of ...

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    The estimate suggests that the condition is slightly less common than Rett syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes babies to rapidly lose coordination, speech and mobility and affects about 1 in ...

  8. Dentatorubral–pallidoluysian atrophy - Wikipedia

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    There are at least eight neurodegenerative diseases that are caused by expanded CAG repeats encoding polyglutamine (polyQ) stretches (see: Trinucleotide repeat disorder). The expanded CAG repeats create an adverse gain-of-function mutation in the gene products. Of these diseases, DRPLA is most similar to Huntington's disease. [citation needed]

  9. Diagnosis of exclusion - Wikipedia

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    An example of such a diagnosis is "fever of unknown origin": to explain the cause of elevated temperature the most common causes of unexplained fever (infection, neoplasm, or collagen vascular disease) must be ruled out. Other examples include: Fibromyalgia [9] Adult-onset Still's disease [10] Behçet's disease [11] Bell's palsy [12]