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  2. Synthetic lethality - Wikipedia

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    Synthetic lethality is defined as a type of genetic interaction where the combination of two genetic events results in cell death or death of an organism. [1] Although the foregoing explanation is wider than this, it is common when referring to synthetic lethality to mean the situation arising by virtue of a combination of deficiencies of two or more genes leading to cell death (whether by ...

  3. Hyperphantasia - Wikipedia

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    Hyperphantasia is the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery. [1] It is the opposite condition to aphantasia, where mental visual imagery is not present. [2] [3] The experience of hyperphantasia is more common than aphantasia [4] [5] and has been described as being "as vivid as real seeing". [4]

  4. List of medical triads, tetrads, and pentads - Wikipedia

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    Hemolytic–uremic syndrome: Horner's Syndrome Triad: ptosis (eyelid), miosis, anhydrosis: Horner's syndrome: Hutchinson's triad: Hutchison's teeth, Interstitial keratitis, Nerve deafness: Congenital syphilis: Kartagener Syndrome Triad: Triad of bronchiectasis, Recurrent sinusitis, and, Situs inversus, Kartagener syndrome: Leriche's syndrome Triad

  5. Locked-in syndrome - Wikipedia

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    In children, the most common cause is a stroke of the ventral pons. [9]Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower portions are spared, locked-in syndrome is essentially the opposite, caused by damage to specific portions of the lower brain and brainstem, with no damage to the upper brain.

  6. Nocebo - Wikipedia

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    A self-willed death (due to voodoo hex, evil eye, pointing the bone procedure, [33] [34] etc.) is an extreme form of a culture-specific syndrome or mass psychogenic illness that produces a particular form of psychosomatic or psychophysiological disorder resulting in psychogenic death. Rubel in 1964 spoke of "culture-bound" syndromes, those ...

  7. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    indicates a specific cause of death in some stillborns: Loss of all four alpha-globin genes (total alpha-thalassemia) leads to severely anemic stillborn babies with small amounts of an abnormal hemoglobin composed of four gamma sub-units (Bart's Hemoglobin) Bastian–Bruns sign: Henry Charlton Bastian, Ludwig Bruns: neurology: spinal cord ...

  8. Delusional misidentification syndrome - Wikipedia

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    For example, a person may believe that they are in fact not in the hospital to which they were admitted, but an identical-looking hospital in a different part of the country. [ 8 ] Cotard's syndrome is a rare disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying ...

  9. Hypoventilation - Wikipedia

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    Examples of opioids include pharmaceuticals such as oxycodone and hydromorphone and examples of benzodiazepines include lorazepam and alprazolam. Hypocapnia, which stimulates hypoventilation; Obesity; see Obesity hypoventilation syndrome; Chronic mountain sickness, a mechanism to conserve energy. [3] Paralyzing venom, such as that of the blue ...