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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hand, foot, and mouth disease 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.
Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common infection caused by a group of enteroviruses. [10] It typically begins with a fever and feeling generally unwell . [ 10 ] This is followed a day or two later by flat discolored spots or bumps that may blister, on the hands, feet and mouth and occasionally buttocks and groin.
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.
Trench foot; Tropical anhidrotic asthenia; Tropical immersion foot (paddy foot, paddy-field foot) Turf toe; Uranium dermatosis; UV-sensitive syndrome; Vibration white finger (dead finger, hand–arm vibration syndrome) Warm water immersion foot; Weathering nodule of ear; Wrestler's ear (cauliflower ear, traumatic auricular hematoma) Zirconium ...
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 ...