| BMC | blood mononuclear cell; bone marrow cell; bone mineral content |
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| BMD | Becker's muscular dystrophy; Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics; bone marrow depression; bone mineral d... |
| NINCDS/ADRDA | National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke/Alzheimer's Disease and Rel... |
| TORCH | toxoplasmosis, other [congenital syphilis and viruses], rubella, cytomegalovirus, and herpes simplex... |
| CHARGE Associations | Coloboma Heart disease Atresia choanae Reta... |
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| paranoid disorders | Chronic mental disorders in which there has been an insidious development of a permanent and unshakeable delusional system (persecutory delusions or delusions of jealousy), accompanied by preservation of clear and orderly thinking. Emotional responses and behaviour are consistent with the delusional state. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| vision disorders | Visual impairment limiting one or more of the basic functions of the eye: visual acuity, dark adaptation, colour vision, or peripheral vision. Visual disability refers to inability of the individual to perform specific visual tasks, such as reading, writing, orientation, or traveling unaided. It is to be differentiated from eye diseases which are restricted to diseases of the eye, the organ and its anatomical parts. (12 Dec 1998) |
| voice disorders | Disorders of voice pitch, loudness, or quality. (12 Dec 1998) |
| respiration disorders | Diseases of the respiratory system in general or unspecified or for a specific respiratory disease not available. (12 Dec 1998) |
| gonadal disorders | Disease of the ovaries and testes of any aetiology. (12 Dec 1998) |
| perceptual disorders | Disturbances in recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli dependent upon one's previous experience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental disorders | Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behaviour producing either distress or impairment of function. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental disorders diagnosed in childhood | Those psychiatric disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence. These disorders can also be first diagnosed during other life stages. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child behaviour disorders | Disturbances considered to be pathological based on age and stage appropriateness, e.g., conduct disturbances and anaclitic depression. This concept does not include psychoneuroses, psychoses, or personality disorders with fixed patterns. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child nutrition disorders | Malnutrition, occurring in children ages 2 to 12 years, which is due to insufficient intake of food, dietary nutrients, or a pathophysiologic condition which prevents the absorption and utilization of food. Growth and development are markedly affected. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child reactive disorders | Reactions to an event or set of events which are considered to be of pathological degree, that have not developed into a neurosis, psychosis, or personality disorder with fixed patterns. (12 Dec 1998) |
| peroxisomal disorders | A heterogeneous group of inherited metabolic disorders in which peroxisomes are either defective or totally lacking and/or there is a dysfunction of single or multiple peroxisomal enzymes. Patients show metabolic defects in all the major biosynthetic peroxisomal pathways, especially failure to synthesise ether lipids, or to oxidise long-chain fatty acids, and accumulate bile acid precursors. The disorders include zellweger syndrome, infantile refsum disease, rhizomelic chondrodysplasia (chondrodysplasia punctata, rhizomelic), and hyperpipecolic acidemia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personality disorders | A major deviation from normal patterns of behaviour. (12 Dec 1998) |
| phagocytic dysfunction disorders immunodeficiency | Suppression in number or function of phagocytic cells such as in chronic granulomatous disease. Synonym: phagocytic dysfunction disorders immunodeficiency. Origin: L. Phagedaena, Gr Phago, To eat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliary motility disorders | Disorders characterised by abnormal ciliary movement in the nose, paranasal sinuses, respiratory tract, and spermatozoa. Electron microscopy of the cilia shows that dynein arms are missing. The disorders manifest as kartagener triad (kartagener's syndrome), chronic respiratory disorders, chronic sinusitis, and/or chronic otitis. (12 Dec 1998) |