Insulin
Insulin [analog] (aka insulin receptor ligand) is an altered form of insulin, differing from any occurring in nature, but still avialable to the human body for performing the same action...
Clubfoot
Clubfoot (aka talipes equinovarus) is a congenital deformity involving 1 foot or both. The affected foot appears to have been rotated internally at the ankle.
[faq]What's clubfoot? It sounds a bit like...
Perinatal infection
Perinatal infection (aka vertically transmitted infection) is an infection transmitted directly from the mother to baby during pregnancy or childbirth.
Pathophysiology
Can be caused by bacteria, viruses, or rarely, parasites
It is caused...
Dehydration
Dehydration is excessive loss of body water/fluid volume. It occurs when water loss > water intake.
[faq]What is dehydration?
It's where you've lost a lot of water. That occurs when the water...
Fundoscopy
Fundoscopy (aka ophthalmoscopy) is the use of funduscope to look into the fundus of the eye, and can confirm health of the retina and vitreous humor.
To allow better inspection through...
Whooping cough
Whooping cough (aka pertussis) is a highly contagious bacterial disease.
[faq]What is whooping cough or pertussis? The "tus" in pertussis sounds like coughing. If you drag on the "tuuuuus" it sounds...
Follicular cyst
Follicular cyst [of ovary] occurs when ovulation doesn't occur, and a follicle doesn't rupture or release its egg, but instead grows until it becomes a cyst, or when a mature follicle...
Uterine fibroid
Uterine fibroid (aka fibroleiomyoma) is a leiomyoma (i.e. benign tumor from smooth muscle tissue) of the myometrium (i.e. smooth muscle layer) of the uterus. Fibroids are often multiple. Diffuse uterine...
Hypocalcemia
Hypocalcemia is low calcium levels in blood. Physiologically, blood calcium is tightly regulated within a narrow range for proper cellular processes.
Sx
Neuromuscular irritability (including tetany as manifested by Chvostek's sign or...
Agenesis
Agenesis is the failure of an organ to develop during embryogenic growth and development, due to the absence of primordial tissue.
Classification
Depending on the organ affected:
Agenesis of the corpus callosum, failure...