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  2. Metastability - Wikipedia

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    The metastability of silica glass, for example, is characterised by lifetimes on the order of 10 98 years [4] (as compared with the lifetime of the universe, which is thought to be around 1.3787 × 10 10 years). [5] Sandpiles are one system which can exhibit metastability if a steep slope or tunnel is present. Sand grains form a pile due to ...

  3. Metastability in the brain - Wikipedia

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    Metastability is basically a theory of how global integrative and local segregative tendencies coexist in the brain. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The Operational Architectonics is centered on the fact that in the metastable regime of brain functioning, the individual parts of the brain exhibit tendencies to function autonomously at the same time as they ...

  4. List of neuromuscular disorders - Wikipedia

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    Mitochondrial myopathies are diseases caused by mutations related to mitochondria, and thus are generally inherited from the mother with variable expressivity due to heteroplasmy. Kearns–Sayre syndrome; Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF)

  5. Lists of diseases - Wikipedia

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    A medical condition is a broad term that includes all diseases and disorders.. A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism.. A disorder is a functional abnormality or disturbance.

  6. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of infectious diseases arranged by name, along with the infectious agents that cause them, the vaccines that can prevent or cure them when they exist and their current status. Some on the list are vaccine-preventable diseases .

  7. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) DPT Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus: DRSP disease Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae disease DS Down syndrome: DSPS Delayed sleep phase syndrome: DTs Delirium tremens: DVD Developmental verbal dyspraxia: DVT Deep vein thrombosis

  8. List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of genetic disorders and if known, type of mutation and for the chromosome involved. Although the parlance "disease-causing gene" is common, it is the occurrence of an abnormality in the parents that causes the impairment to develop within the child.

  9. List of notifiable diseases - Wikipedia

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    Disease Australia [1] Hong Kong [2] India [3] Malaysia [4] United Kingdom [5] United States [6] Amoebic dysentery: Yes Yes Babesiosis: Yes Cancer: Yes Coccidioidomycosis: Yes Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) Yes Yes variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) Yes Cryptosporidiosis: Yes Yes Cyclosporiasis: Yes Dysentery: Yes Yes Fever syndromes ...