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  2. White spot syndrome - Wikipedia

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    White spot syndrome (WSS) is a viral infection of penaeid shrimp.The disease is highly lethal and contagious, killing shrimp quickly. Outbreaks of this disease have wiped out the entire populations of many shrimp farms within a few days, in places throughout the world.

  3. White dot syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome occurs mostly in females. Symptoms include a sudden loss of central vision, but patients eventually regain normal vision. The white dots are small and located in the posterior pole at the level of the retinal pigment epithelium. The white dots may disappear after the first few weeks of the disease.

  4. Leukonychia - Wikipedia

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    Also known as "true" leukonychia, this is the most common form of leukonychia, in which small white spots appear on the nails. Picking and biting of the nails are a prominent cause in young children and nail biters. Besides parakeratosis, air that is trapped between the cells may also cause this appearance. [5] It is also caused by trauma.

  5. Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) is an uncommon inflammatory condition of the retina that typically affects otherwise healthy young females in the second to fourth decades of life. The typical patient with MEWDS is a healthy female aged between 15 and 50.

  6. Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy

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    These lesions may be colored from grey-white to cream-shaded yellow. Other symptoms include scotomata and photopsia. In weeks to a month times the lesions begin to clear and disappear (with prednisone) leaving behind areas of retinal pigment epithelial atrophy and diffuse fine pigmentation (scarring).

  7. What Is White Lung Pneumonia? Doctors Explain Signs and Symptoms

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    White lung syndrome, or white lung pneumonia, is getting attention after an outbreak in Ohio. Experts explain symptoms, causes, treatment, and prevention.

  8. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    Brushfield spots: Thomas Brushfield: ophthalmology, genetics: Downs' syndrome or non-pathological: greyish-white spots at periphery of iris Buerger's test: Leo Buerger: general medicine, surgery: peripheral artery disease: pallor of the leg upon elevation Burton line: Henry Burton: toxicology: lead poisoning: NEJM 354:e21 5/18/06: blue ...

  9. 'Missing white woman syndrome': Gabby Petito coverage ... - AOL

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    The intense national interest in the case has prompted criticism of news outlets for not covering similar cases involving Black, brown or Indigenous victims.