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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| muscular dystrophy | inherited muscle-destroying diseases that generally appear during childhood. |
| pleurisy | inflamation of the pleura, often results from pneumonia |
| mastoiditis | a mastoid sinus infection |
| hyperplasia | when someone is anemic their bone marrow undergoes "hyperplasia" red blood cells are produced at a faster rate |
| hypertrophy | growth of an organ or tissue due to an increase in the size of its cells. Normal response of skeletal muscle cells when they are challenged to lift excessive weight |
| anterograde amnesia | consolidated memories are NOT lost, but new sensory inputs cannot be associated with old, and the person lives in the here and now from that point on. |
| retrograde amnesia | loss of memories formed in distant past |
| tic douloureaux | MOST EXCRUCiating pain known caused by inflammation of trigeminal nerve |
| bell's palsy | characterized by paralysis of facial muscles on affected side and partial loss of taste sensation; most often caused by herpes simplex 1 viral infection which causes swelling and inflammatin of facial nerve. Lower eyelid droops, corner of mouth sags, tear |
| psychosis | a class of severe mental illness in which they lose touch with reality and exhibit bizarre behaviors |
| otalgia | ear paina |
| papilledema | swelling of optic disc into the eyeball which can be observed by opthalmoscopic exam-caused by conditions that increase intracranial pressure |
| paresthesia | an abnormal sensation (burning,numbness) in the absense of stimuli; caused by a sensory nerve disorder |
| analgesia | pain relieving drug |
| neuritis | inflammation of a nerve |
| neuroses | less debilitating class of mental illness; panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive |
| enucleation | surgical removal of eyeball |
| exophthalmos | anteriorly bulging eyeballs; seen in hyperthyroidism |
| ageusia | loss or impairment of the taste sense |
| ketosis | metabolic acidosis |
| myoclonus | sudden contraction of a muscle or jerk; usually seen in newborns |
| encephalopathy | any brain disease or disorder |
| vitiligo | most prevalent skin pigmentation disorder; loss of melanocytes and uneven dispersal of melanin |
| sarcoma | cancer in the mesenchyme (connective) tissues and muscle |
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