People with the rare genetic disease fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva characteristically have a short hallux which appears to turn inward, or medially, in relation to the foot.

There are regional variations in disease presentation: parotid abscesses characteristically occur in Thai children but this presentation has only been described once in Australia.

This form occurs most often in boys older than 8, characteristically causes back pain, and is linked to ankylosing spondylitis and inflammatory bowel disease.

The main method of treatment for death signaling-related diseases involves either increasing or decreasing the susceptibility of apoptosis in diseased cells, depending on whether the disease is caused by either the inhibition of or excess apoptosis.

Management of Chagasic disease uniquely involves addressing selective incremental failure of the parasympathetic nervous system.

In the chronic stage, treatment involves managing the clinical manifestations of the disease.

Endocrinology involves caring for the person as well as the disease.

Sexual activity that involves contact with another person's bodily fluids carries the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease such as those arising from HIV / AIDS, chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, and HPV.

* Some forms of movement disorders ( advanced Parkinson's disease, chorea ) this involves the use of specially developed minimally invasive stereotactic techniques ( functional, stereotactic neurosurgery ) such as ablative surgery and deep brain stimulation surgery

* Reactive arthritis ( previously Reiter's disease ) – asymmetrically involves heel, sacroiliac joints, and large joints of the leg.

Current-day werewolf fiction almost exclusively involves lycanthropy being either a hereditary condition or being transmitted like an infectious disease by the bite of another werewolf.

Plant pathology also involves the study of pathogen identification, disease etiology, disease cycles, economic impact, plant disease epidemiology, plant disease resistance, how plant diseases affect humans and animals, pathosystem genetics, and management of plant diseases.

Alzheimer ’ s disease involves the progressive degeneration of the brain, severely impacting mental faculties.

* Cluster headache, a neurological disease that involves an immense degree of pain

Diabetes is a systemic disease because it involves many parts of the body such as the pancreas, eyes, kidneys, heart, and nerves.

In patients with a clinical suspicion for Tay – Sachs disease, with any age of onset, the initial testing involves an enzyme assay to measure the activity of hexosaminidase in serum, fibroblasts or leukocytes.

In contrast to Crohn's disease, which can affect areas of the gastrointestinal tract outside of the colon, ulcerative colitis usually involves the rectum and is confined to the colon, with occasional involvement of the ileum.

Curative treatment generally involves surgery, various forms of radiation therapy, or, less commonly, cryosurgery ; hormonal therapy and chemotherapy are generally reserved for cases of advanced disease ( although hormonal therapy may be given with radiation in some cases ).

* Pathogen Reduction treatment that involves, for example, the addition of riboflavin with subsequent exposure to UV light has been shown to be effective in inactivating pathogens ( viruses, bacteria, parasites and white blood cells ) in blood products .< ref > By inactivating white blood cells in donated blood products, riboflavin and UV light treatment can also replace gamma-irradiation as a method to prevent graft-versus-host disease ( TA-GVHD ).

The most notable are Parkinson's disease, which involves degeneration of the dopamine-producing cells in the substantia nigra pars, and Huntington's disease, which primarily involves damage to the striatum.

Plant pathology also involves the study of pathogen identification, disease etiology, disease cycles, economic impact, plant disease epidemiology, plant disease resistance, how plant diseases affect humans and animals, pathosystem genetics, and management of plant diseases.

After some years of exposure they could get infected from the poisonous phosphorus and get a disease called “ Phossy jaw ” and could lose their teeth.

Phossy jaw, formally phosphorus necrosis of the jaw, is an occupational disease of those who work with white phosphorus, also known as yellow phosphorus, without proper safeguards.

A related condition, Bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw ( BON ), has been described as a side-effect of amino-bisphosphonates, a class of phosphorus-based drugs that inhibit bone resorption, and are used widely for treating osteoporosis, bone disease in cancer and some other conditions.

Westie puppies may be affected by Craniomandibular osteopathy, a disease also known " lion jaw ", and is sometimes also referred to as " westie jaw ".

This is a disease that causes abnormal growth in the hands, head, jaw, and tongue.

* Masticatory muscle myositis ; a canine inflammatory disease affecting the muscles of the jaw

If the heart rate is very fast, and the patient has underlying coronary artery disease ( obstruction of the arteries of the heart by atherosclerosis ), chest pain similar to angina may be experienced ; this pain is band-or pressure-like around the chest and often radiates to the left arm and angle of the left jaw.

Actinomycosis occurs rarely in humans but rather frequently in cattle as a disease called lumpy jaw.

Dental disease has several causes, namely genetics, inappropriate diet, injury to the jaw, infection, or cancer.

The total adverse impact of disease, insects, fire, weather, destructive animals, and other forces on the uses and values of forest resources is not generally recognized.

About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.

`` Hang this around your neck or attach it to other parts of your anatomy, and its rays will cure any disease you have '', said the company.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

Examples of other diseases of the motor neuron that should not be confused with MND include spinobulbar muscular atrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, and many others.

This disease has been occasionally associated with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, septicemia associated with immune complex deposition, methanol poisoning, and other underlying conditions.

Side-effects include a prolonged QT interval in the heart, which can be dangerous for patients with heart disease or those taking other drugs that prolong the QT interval.

It is medically considered a disease, specifically an addictive illness, and in psychiatry several other terms are used, specifically " alcohol abuse " and " alcohol dependence ," which have slightly different definitions.

The most important is brain disease and the effects of brain damage, covered in the human brain article because the most common diseases of the human brain either do not show up in other species, or else manifest themselves in different ways.

Midges will then spread the disease from the calves to other animals, starting a new season of infection.

Osteoporosis is most common in women after the menopause, when it is called postmenopausal osteoporosis, but may develop in men and premenopausal women in the presence of particular hormonal disorders and other chronic diseases or as a result of smoking and medications, specifically glucocorticoids, when the disease is called steroid-or glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis ( SIOP or GIOP ).

Styblo and Meijer argued neonatal immunization protected against miliary TB and other noncontagious forms of TB, and not pulmonary TB which was a disease of adults, and that mass immunization campaigns with BCG would therefore not be expected to have a significant public health impact.

For these and other reasons, BCG was therefore given to time with the peak incidence of pulmonary disease.

Diet, exercise, smoking and other environmental factors may have also contributed to their disease.

Serious outbreaks of plague are usually started by other disease outbreaks in rodents, or a rise in the rodent population.

He had noted that persons who became ill did not have to be in close contact with each other to acquire the disease.

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Unfortunately, vacuolization can be seen in other disease states.

This teaching is the foundation of the Christian Science principle that disease – and any other adversity – can be cured through prayerful efforts, made possible only by God's grace, to fully understand this spiritual relationship.

However, the study made no attempt to ascertain the occurrence of the disease in other parts of the state, or elsewhere in the country.

He told her that he acquired this disease after separating from his first wife and living with his concubine Yao Yecheng, as well as with many other women he consorted with.

Large-scale population movements from rural to urban areas of Latin America and to other regions of the world have increased the geographic distribution of Chagas disease, and cases have been noted in many countries, particularly in Europe.

Certain chemotherapy agents also have a role in the treatment of other conditions, including ankylosing spondylitis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and scleroderma.

* Sewage: antibacterial treatment of general sewage by chlorine, ozone, ultraviolet light or other effective treatment before it enters the waterways or underground water supplies helps prevent undiagnosed patients from inadvertently spreading the disease.