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mixed connective tissue disease

Health care; Diseases

A syndrome with overlapping clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis, and Raynaud's phenomenon. The disease is differentially characterized by high serum titers of ...

popliteal cyst

Health care; Diseases

A synovial cyst located in the back of the knee, in the popliteal space arising from the semimembranous bursa or the knee joint.

temporal arteritis

Health care; Diseases

A systemic autoimmune vasculitis occurring primarily in people over the age of 50. Pathologic features include a necrotizing panarteritis including granulomas and giant cells. There is a predilection ...

viral hemorrhagic septicemia

Health care; Diseases

A systemic infection of various salmonid and a few nonsalmonid fishes caused by Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (see novirhabdovirus),

Sneddon syndrome

Health care; Diseases

A systemic non-inflammatory arteriopathy primarily of middle-aged females characterized by the association of livedo reticularis, multiple thrombotic cerebral infarction; coronary disease, and ...

yaws

Health care; Diseases

A systemic non-venereal infection of the tropics caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue.

sepsis syndrome

Health care; Diseases

A systemic response to infection, defined as hypothermia or hyperthermia, tachycardia, tachypnea, a clinically evident focus of infection or positive blood cultures, one or more end organs with ...