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"CDC A-Z Index" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website "Disorder Index". National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Disease Acronyms and Abbreviations; Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD)
Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things). In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held a conference that discussed the naming of diseases and conditions.
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.
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Babinski–Nageotte syndrome; Baboon syndrome; Baggio–Yoshinari syndrome; Baller–Gerold syndrome; Bamforth–Lazarus syndrome; Bangstad syndrome; Bannayan–Riley–Ruvalcaba syndrome
Alpers disease; Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency; Alpha-2 deficient collagen disease; Alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase deficiency; Alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency; Alpha-mannosidosis; Alpha-sarcoglycanopathy; Alpha-thalassemia; Alpha thalassemia abnormal morphogenesis; Alpha-thalassemia mental retardation syndrome; Alport syndrome. Alport ...
Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
Medical history, such as close contact with other people with infectious mononucleosis Physical examination , including palpation of any enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, or enlarged spleen . The heterophile antibody test is a screening test that gives results.