| ISKDC | International Study of Kidney Diseases in Childhood |
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| IUVDT | International Union against Venereal Diseases and the Treponematoses |
| MAIN | medication-induced, autoimmune, infectious, and neoplastic [diseases associated with antiphospholipi... |
| MSSVD | Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases |
| NCRND | National Committee for Research in Neurological Diseases |
| lung diseases, parasitic | Infections of the lungs with a parasite. They are caused most commonly by nematodes (roundworms). (12 Dec 1998) |
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| lymphatic diseases | Diseases of lymph or lymph vessels. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lysosomal diseases | Diseases (also called storage diseases) in which a deficiency of a particular lysosomal enzyme leads to accumulation of the undigested substrate for that enzyme within cells. Not immediately fatal, but within a few years lead to serious neurological and skeletal disorders and eventually to death. See: the following conditions: Hurler sundrome, Hunter syndrome, San Fillipo, Gaucher's disease, Niemann-Pick, Pompe's disease, Tay Sachs disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
| lysosomal storage diseases | Inborn errors of metabolism characterised by defects in specific lysosomal hydrolases and resulting in intracellular accumulation of unmetabolised substrates. (12 Dec 1998) |