| MMD | mass median diameter; minimum morbidostatic dose; moyamoya disease; myotonic muscular dystrophy |
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| MyMD | myotonic muscular dystrophy |
| NFMD | National Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy |
| PMD | Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease; posterior mandibular depth; primary myocardial disease; private medici... |
| LCD | coal tar solution [liquor carbonis detergens]; lattice corneal dystrophy; liquid crystal diode; loca... |
| tibial phenomenon | Dorsal flexion of the great toe, sometimes of the entire foot, in a paralysed limb when the extremity is drawn up against the body, flexing both knee and hip. Synonym: tibial phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| tibial tuberosity | An oval elevation on the anterior surface of the tibia about 3 cm distal to the articular surface, giving attachment at its distal part to the patellar ligament. Synonym: tuberositas tibiae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adiposogenital dystrophy | A disorder characterised primarily by obesity and hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism in adolescent boys; dwarfism is rare, and when present is thought to reflect hypothyroidism. Visual loss, behavioural abnormalities, and diabetes insipidus may occur. Frohlich's syndrome often is used synonymously for this disorder, although the original case involved a pituitary tumour; most cases are thought to result from hypothalamic dysfunction in areas regulating appetite and gonadal development. The most common causes are pituitary and hypothalamic neoplasms. Synonym: adiposis orchica, adiposogenital degeneration, adiposogenital dystrophy, adiposogenital syndrome, hypophysial syndrome, hypothalamic obesity with hypogonadism. Origin: L. Fr. G. Dys-, bad, + trophe, nourishment (05 Mar 2000) |
| Barnes' dystrophy | A rare type of muscular dystrophy, in which muscles are often hypertrophic and stronger than normal, but later become weak and atrophic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| macular dystrophy | A group of disorders involving predominately the posterior portion of the ocular fundus, due to degeneration in the sensory layer of the retina, retinal pigment epithelium, Bruch's membrane, choroid, or a combination of these tissues. See: Stargardt's disease, Best's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy | Fingerprint dystrophy accompanied by map-like patterns and microcystic epithelial inclusions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reflex sympathetic dystrophy | A syndrome of pain and tenderness, usually to a hand or foot, associated with vasomotor instability, skin changes and rapid development of bony demineralisation (osteoporosis). Frequently will follow a localised trauma, stroke or peripheral nerve injury. (27 Sep 1997) |
| reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome | <syndrome> A condition that features a group of typical symptoms, including pain (often burning type), tenderness, and swelling of an extremity associated with varying degrees of sweating, warmth and/or coolness, flushing, discoloration, and shiny skin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vitreo-tapetoretinal dystrophy | Autosomal recessive bilateral peripheral and central retinoschisis with pigmentary degeneration of the retina, chorioretinal atrophy, vitreous degeneration, and night blindness. Synonym: Favre's dystrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Meesman dystrophy | Epithelial dystrophy characterised by progressive cysts and opacities of the corneal epithelium, with onset in infancy. Inheritance: autosomal dominant with incomplete penetrance. Synonym: Meesman dystrophy. (22 Sep 2002) |
| vulvar dystrophy | A spectrum of vulvar eruptions consisting of white atrophic papules, including lichen sclerosus et atrophicus, squamous cell hyperplasia (hypertrophic dystrophy), or a combination of these (mixed dystrophy). See: lichen sclerosus et atrophicus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reticular dystrophy of cornea | <ophthalmology> Bilateral, progressive, superficial degeneration of the corneal epithelium and adjacent Bowman's membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Groenouw's corneal dystrophy | A granular type of corneal dystrophy, with autosomal dominant inheritance, a macular type of corneal dystrophy, with autosomal recessive inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ring-like corneal dystrophy | Thread-like opacities of the anterior corneal stroma, with acute, painful onset followed by decreased vision; autosomal dominant inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gutter dystrophy of cornea | A marginal furrow usually inferiorly about 1 mm from the limbus; and sometimes bilateral. Synonym: keratoleptynsis. (05 Mar 2000) |