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This is an alphabetically sorted list of medical syndromes. 1p36 deletion syndrome; 1q21.1 deletion syndrome; 1q21.1 duplication syndrome; 13q deletion syndrome;
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
Syndromes are often named after the physician or group of physicians that discovered them or initially described the full clinical picture. Such eponymous syndrome names are examples of medical eponyms. Recently, there has been a shift towards naming conditions descriptively (by symptoms or underlying cause) rather than eponymously, but the ...
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.
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. There are over 6,000 known genetic disorders in humans.
Adenoid disorders; Adrenal disorders; Allergic disorders; Anorectic disorders; Antisocial personality disorder; Anxiety disorders; Appendix disorders; Articulation disorders; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Autonomic nerve disorders; Acute stress disorder; Adjustment disorder; Agoraphobia; Autism Spectrum Disorder
Most commonly, diseases are named for the person, usually a physician, but occasionally another health care professional, who first described the condition—typically by publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Less frequently, an eponymous disease is named after a patient, examples being Lou Gehrig disease and Hartnup disease.
Medical pentads (4 P) Medical triads (1 C, 51 P) N. ... Pages in category "Syndromes" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 542 total.