21 Terms
Contributors in Diseases
Diseases
indications
Biotechnology; Diseases
In medicine, an indication is a valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery. The opposite of indication is contraindication.
contraindications
Biotechnology; Diseases
A contraindication (pronounced as contra-indication) is a condition or factor that speaks against a certain measure. It is mostly used in medicine, with regard to factors that increase the risks ...
complications
Biotechnology; Biomedical
Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms ...
Nicolas-Favre disease
Health care; Diseases
A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable ...
tarantism
Health care; Diseases
An uncontrollable urge to dance; a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the ...
gout
Health care; Diseases
Gout is a desease that results from an overload of uric acid in the body. This overload of uric acid leads to the formation of tiny crystals of urate that deposite in tissues of the body, especially ...
hammer toe
Health care; Diseases
A flexed (curled) but not abnormally rotated toe. May require surgical correction.
