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difficulty moving feet in contact with floor, tendency to fall backwards Bruns nystagmus: Ludwig Bruns: neurology: cerebellopontine angle tumor, vestibular schwannoma: nystagmus that coarsens in amplitude on lateral gaze Brushfield spots: Thomas Brushfield: ophthalmology, genetics: Downs' syndrome or non-pathological: greyish-white spots at ...
What it looks like: Hand, foot, and mouth disease is named for its characteristic flat, red spots that appear on the palms, soles of the feet, and around the mouth. Other symptoms to note : Spots ...
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
Schamberg's disease, (also known as "progressive pigmentary dermatosis of Schamberg", [1] "purpura pigmentosa progressiva" (PPP), [1] and "Schamberg's purpura" [1]) is a chronic discoloration of the skin found in people of all ages, usually only affecting the feet, legs or thighs or a combination. It may occur as a single event or subsequent ...
Juvenile plantar dermatosis (atopic winter feet, dermatitis plantaris sicca, forefoot dermatitis, moon-boot foot syndrome, sweaty sock dermatitis) Molluscum dermatitis; Nummular dermatitis (discoid eczema, microbial eczema, nummular eczema, nummular neurodermatitis) Nutritional deficiency eczema; Sulzberger–Garbe syndrome (oid-oid disease)
Congenital melanocytic nevus is a type of melanocytic nevus, the medical term for what is colloquially called a "mole", found in infants at birth. Occurring in about 1% of infants in the United States, it is located in the area of the head and neck 15% of the time, but may occur anywhere on the body.
A female baby born in Nagpur, India in June 2016 died after two days. She was the first case of harlequin ichthyosis reported in India. [39] [40] [41] Hannah Betts was born with the condition in 1989 in Great Britain, and died in 2022 at 32 years old. [42] Ng Poh Peng was born in 1991 in Singapore. Doctors had not expected her to live past her ...
Ephelides are more common in those with light complexions, although they are found on people with a variety of skin tones. The regular use of sunblock can inhibit their development. Liver spots (also known as sunspots and lentigines) look like large freckles, but they form after years of exposure to the sun. Liver spots are more common in older ...