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Dry Socket
What is a Dry Socket?
Dry socket is the colloquial term used for the complication that can come as a result of the extraction of...
Roseola Rash
What is a Roseola Rash?
Roseola rash is a mild infection affecting children ages two years and below although can also affect young adults with...
Bumps on Tongue
The tongue is actually a muscle and one that allows us to accomplish a number of important functions, such as talking, eating and swallowing....
Gangrene
What is Gangrene?
The term gangrene refers to the death of portions of tissue in the human body as a result of a complete loss...
Liposarcoma
What is Liposarcoma?
This is a tumor that shows up in the fat cells that are located in the deep soft tissue which can happen...
Valley Fever
What is Valley Fever Rash?
Valley fever rash is a disease caused by fungal infection most specifically that of Coccidioides immitis fungi. It is medically...
Psoriatic Arthritis
What is Psoriatic Arthritis?
Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory arthritis that affects people already suffering from a skin condition called psoriasis. The onset of arthritis...
Hirsutism
What is Hirsutism?
Hirsutism is a condition found in women characterized by an excessive growth of dark hair in unwanted areas or more in male-pattern...
Poison Oak Rash
What is a Poison Oak Rash?
Poison oak rash is a skin reaction that occurs after contact with poison oak plant. The rash usually appears...
Astigmatism
What is Astigmatism?
Astigmatism is a common eye condition characterized by an optical deficiency particularly blurry vision as a result of irregularity in the curvature...
Meningitis Rash
What is Meningitis Rash?
Meningitis rash is a distinguishing sign of a progression in Meningococcal meningitis. Meningococcal meningitis is basically a form of meningitis that...
Lymphedema
What is Lymphedema?
Lymphedema is an obstruction of lymphatic system characterized by swelling and fluid retention in one or two extremities and is the result...
Spinal Meningitis
What is Spinal Meningitis?
Meningitis or spinal meningitis is the inflammation of the membrane surrounding or covering the brain and the spinal cord. It is...
Sores on Lips
What is a lip sore?
Lip sores are blisters, ulcers, lesions or bumps that develop on the lips. When you're having a lip sore, most...
Stomach Growling after Eating
What is Stomach growling!?
Stomach growling is a noise within the stomach and considered to be a normal part of gastrointestinal physiology. It is produced...
Hangnail Infection
What is a Hangnail?
Also called an agnail, it is a small, torn piece of skin next to a nail, either at the toe or...
Infected Belly Button
An Infected smelly belly button may have a pus like discharge coming out of it. It could also be characterized by a tender lump...
Ecchymosis
What is Ecchymosis?
Ecchymosis is a clinical manifestation characterized by reddish to bluish sometimes purple discoloration of the skin which results from the rupture of...
Sarcoidosis
What is Sarcoidosis?
Sarcoidosis is a condition characterized by growth of tiny inflammatory cells or granulomas in multiple system of the body most commonly the...
Cloudy Vision
What is Cloudy Vision?
Cloudy vision is a condition that impedes the visual acuity and color perception of an individual. The visual is characterized as...
Hepatomegaly
What is Hepatomegaly?
This condition occurs when your liver becomes enlarged. Your liver is located in your upper right quadrant of the abdomen and is...
Pituitary Adenoma
What is Pituitary Adenoma?
This is an abnormal growth of cells in your anterior pituitary gland and is also called pituitary gland tumors. Your pituitary...
Meningioma
What is Meningioma?
This is a type of brain tumor that develops in your meninges, which is the membrane that covers your spinal cord and...
Mumps
What is Mumps?
Mumps is an inflammation of your parotid glands. Your parotid glands can be found at the back of each of your cheeks...
Multiple Sclerosis
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
This is a medical disease of your central nervous system. At this time it is considered an autoimmune disease which is...
Folliculitis
What is Folliculitis?
This medical condition is an infection of your hair follicles, which is a little pouch from which your hair grows from. It...
Osteomalacia
What is Osteomalacia?
In medical terms the word down osteo means bone and malacia means soft so when you combine the two words it means...
Neurosarcoidosis
What is Neurosarcoidosis?
This is not a disease but is a complication or neurological manifestations of a more serious disease called Sarcoidosis. This manifestation of...
Neurofibromatosis
What is Neurofibromatosis?
This is a medical disorder in which the cell growth is disturbed within your nervous system and cause tumors to form on...
Myxedema
What is Myxedema?
This is a very difficult skin condition. If you have hypothyroidism, which is when your thyroid gland is not making enough of...
Edwards Syndrome
What is Edwards Syndrome?
This is a rare genetic disorder whose medical name is Trisomy 18. In 1960 John H. Edward first recorded the details...
Enlarged Thyroid
What is an Enlarged Thyroid?
This is more of a symptom of thyroid disease than a medical condition. Your thyroid is one of the endocrine...
Fifth Disease
What is Fifth Disease?
This is a common skin related disease that can infect children. The medical name for this disease is Erythema Infectiosum. It...
Emphysema
What is Emphysema?
This is a progressive long term lung disease and is a type of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The reason that it...
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
What is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy?
This is a progressive genetic disorder of muscle atrophy that normally affects just males. There are over three thousand five...
Cystic Fibrosis
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
This medical disorder is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. It affects your liver, pancreas, intestine, sex organs, sinuses, and most critically...
Celiac Disease
What is Celiac Disease?
This is an autoimmune disorder that affects your digestive system that can cause you to have intolerance for gluten protein and...
Carbuncle
What are Carbuncles?
A carbuncle is used to describe a group of boils that are connected or an abscess that is bigger than a boil...
Necrotizing Fasciitis
What is Necrotizing Fasciitis?
Necrotizing Fasciitis is commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria which is a rapidly progressing infection involving the deeper layer of the skin...
Swimmer’s Ear
What is a Swimmer’s Ear?
Swimmer’s ear is medically termed as Otitis externa. It is an infection of the outer ear and the ear canal...
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
What is Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever?
Ebola Hemorrhagic fever is a human disease that is severe and potentially fatal. The disease is marked by severe internal...
Pinguecula
What is Pinguecula?
Pinguecula is a fairly common non-cancerous disease of the conjunctiva. This condition is characterized by a yellowish and slightly raised thickening of...
Osteoporosis
What is Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is coined from Greek word “ostoun” that means bone and “poros” to mean pore. It is the disease of the bone...
Vasculitis
What is Vasculitis?
Vasculitis is a group of uncommon disorder of the blood vessels marked by inflammation involving both the arteries and veins. The condition...
Sickle Cell Anemia
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?
Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disorder of the hemoglobin characterized by an abnormality in the shape which should be...
Craniosynostosis
What is Craniosynostosis?
Craniosynostosis is a birth defect involving the development of the skull characterized by premature fusion of one or more suture or the...
Scleroderma
What is Scleroderma?
Scleroderma is a chronic and rare type of autoimmune disease that primarily targets the skin and the body’s connective tissues. The disease...
Lipodystrophy
What is Lipodystrophy?
Lipodystrophy, otherwise referred to as lipoatrophy, is a medical condition referring to varied groups of metabolic disorders characterized by abnormal distribution or...
Trench Foot
What is Trench Foot?
Trench foot is a medical condition characterized by irritation, rash formation, and even ulceration in the foot’s integument resulting from a...
Petechial Rash
What is Petechial rash?
Petechial rash is referred to as the small, flat red or purple spots on the skin or in the mucus membrane....
Lipoma
What is a Lipoma?
A lipoma is a mass or lump that is composed of adipocytes or fat cells. Lipoma is a very common, noncancerous...