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  2. Actinomycosis - Wikipedia

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    Actinomycosis abscesses grow larger as the disease progresses, often over months. In severe cases, they may penetrate the surrounding bone and muscle to the skin, where they break open and leak large amounts of pus, which often contains characteristic granules filled with progeny bacteria. These granules are often called "sulfur granules" due ...

  3. Skeletal fluorosis - Wikipedia

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    Over half of groundwater sources in India have fluoride above recommended levels. [9] Fluorosis can also occur as a result of volcanic activity. The 1783 eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland is estimated to have killed about 22% of the Icelandic population, and 60% of livestock, as a result of fluorosis and sulfur dioxide gases. [10]

  4. Yokkaichi asthma - Wikipedia

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    Yokkaichi asthma (四日市ぜんそく, Yokkaichi zensoku) refers to cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema, and bronchial asthma in humans and various environmental changes usually attributed to sulfur dioxide (SO 2) emissions which appeared as smog over the city of Yokkaichi in Mie Prefecture, Japan between 1960 and 1972, though other SO x ...

  5. Metal toxicity - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms of selenosis include a garlic odor on the breath, gastrointestinal disorders, hair loss, sloughing of nails, fatigue, irritability, and neurological damage. Zinc toxicity has been seen to occur at ingestion of greater than 225 mg of zinc. [18] Excessive absorption of zinc can suppress copper and iron absorption.

  6. Arsenic poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Arsenic poisoning (or arsenicosis) is a medical condition that occurs due to elevated levels of arsenic in the body. [4] If arsenic poisoning occurs over a brief period of time, symptoms may include vomiting, abdominal pain, encephalopathy, and watery diarrhea that contains blood. [1]

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  8. Necrotizing fasciitis - Wikipedia

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    Reduced or absent sensation over the skin of the affected area [2] Ecchymosis (bruising) that progresses to skin necrosis. [2] This is because the skin changes color from red to purple and black due to clotting blood vessels [8] Rapid progression to shock despite antibiotic therapy is another indication of necrotizing fasciitis. However, those ...

  9. Sulfur metabolism - Wikipedia

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    From the sulfide they form the amino acids cysteine and methionine, sulfolipids, and other sulfur compounds. Animals obtain sulfur from cysteine and methionine in the protein that they consume. Sulfur is the third most abundant mineral element in the body. [21] The amino acids cysteine and methionine are used by the body to make glutathione.