| syndrome, joint hypermobility | See Syndrome, hypermobility. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| syndrome, kartagener's | The trio of sinusitis, bronchitis and situs inversus (lateral reversal of the position all organs in the chest and abdomen with the heart and stomach on the right, the liver on the left, etc. Opposite or inverted from their usual position). (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, kinky hair | Genetic disorder with fragile twisted ( kinky ) hair and progressive deterioration of the brain. Due to an error in copper transport resulting in copper deficiency. Females are carriers and their sons with the gene have the disease. Also known as menkes syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, klinefelter | The most common single cause of hypogonadism (underfunction of the gonads) and infertility in men, klinefelter syndrome is due to a chromosome abnormality with xxy (plus additional x or y chromosomes). It affects about 1 in 500 males and results in small testes (hypogenitalism), underproduction of testosterone and infertility (hypogonadism), and a long-limbed, long-trunked, relatively tall, slim build. Klinefelter boys tend to have learning and/or behavioural problems. at adolescence there is little growth of facial hair and a third of boys develop gynaecomastia (enlargement of the male breast). Named for the physician harry klinefelter who with e.c. Reifenstein, jr. And fuller albright (the founder of modern endocrinology) described the condition in 1942 long before its chromosomal basis became known. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, klippel-feil | The combination of short neck, low hairline at the nape of the neck and limited movement of the head. It is due to a defect in the early development of the spinal column in the neck (the cervival vertebrae). The condition is also called the klippel-feil sequence (referring to an embryologic or early developmental sequence of events). (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, klippel-trenaunay-weber | A congenital malformation syndrome characterised by the triad of asymmetric limb hypertrophy, haemangiomata, and nevi. Asymmetric limb hypertrophy is enlargement of one limb and not the corresponding limb on the other side, the enlarged limb being 3 times more likely to be a leg than an arm in ktw; and the limb enlargement is of bone as well as soft tissue. The haemangiomas, abnormal nests of blood vessels that proliferate inappropriately and excessively, cover a remarkable range from small innocuous capillary haemangiomas ( strawberry marks ) to huge cavernous haemangiomas. The nevi are pigmented moles on the skin; in ktw there are often also dark linear streaks on the skin, streaks due to too much pigment. There can be other abnormalities but the triad is the consistent clinical centrepiece of the disease. most persons with ktw have an enlarged leg and do relatively well without treatment or, for example, with only compression from an elastic stocking. Skin ulcers and other skin problems can occur over the swollen leg. Usually, the treatment is conservative. Surgery is almost never needed. The only possible exceptions are the very rare situations in which the leg reaches gigantic proportions or secondary clotting difficulties arise (due to trapping and destruction of blood platelets in a huge haemangioma). Then, amputation may become necessary. The cause of ktw syndrome is unknown. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, lennnox | See Syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, lennox-gastaut | A severe form of epilepsy that usually begins in early childhood and is characterised by frequent seizures of multiple types, mental impairment, and a particular brain wave pattern (a slow spike-and-wave pattern). The seizures that are notoriously hard to treat and may lead to falls and injuries can be reduced in frequency by treatment with lamotrigone, a chemically novel antiepileptic drug. The syndrome is named for w.g. Lennox and h. Gastaut who described it. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, li-fraumeni | A family tendency to cancers due to a mutation in a gene that normally serves to curb cancer: the p53 tumour-suppressor gene. Named after drs. Fred li and joe fraumeni. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, marfan | Inherited disorder with long fingers and toes, dislocation of the lens, and aortic wall weakness and aneurysm. (it has been suggested that abraham lincoln had marfan syndrome.) (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, martin-bell | Better known as the fragile X syndrome, the most common heritable form of mental retardation. Fragile x syndrome is due to mutation (changes) at the fragile x site and so perforce is x-linked (carried on the x chromosome). Although it is usually more severe in males than females, the syndrome is due to a dynamic mutation (a trinucleotide repeat) that can change in length and hence in severity from generation to generation, from person to person, and even within a given person. The fragile x syndrome is known as the martin-bell syndrome in honor of their discovery of it in 1943. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, masa | MASA stands for mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs. Features of the syndrome include (1) neurologically: mental retardation and aphasia (lack of speech); (2) limbs: adducted (clasped) thumbs, absent extensor pollicis longus and/or brevis muscles to the thumb, shuffling gait, and leg spasticity; (3) growth: small body size; (4) skeleton: lumbar lordosis (sway back). Masa is inherited as an x-linked trait and so affects mainly boys. Alternative names for masa include clasped thumb and mental retardation, congenital clasped thumb with mental retardation, adducted thumb with mental retardation, and the gareis-mason syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, mucocutaneous lymph node | A syndrome of unknown origin, mainly affecting young children, causing fever, reddening of the eyes more than (conjunctivitis), lips and mucous membranes of the mouth, ulcerative gum disease (gingivitis), swollen glands in the neck (cervical more than lymphadenopathy), and a rash that is raised and bright red (maculoerythematous) in a glove-and-sock fashion over the skin of the hands and feet which becomes hard, swollen (edematous), and peels off. Also called kawasaki's disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, munchhausen | Recurrent feigning of catastrophic illnesses. Named for the fictitious baron who told tales that were whopping lies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndrome, myelodysplastic | A condition in which the bone marrow does not function normally. It does not produce enough blood cells. This condition may progress and become acute leukaemia. Myelodysplastic syndrome also is called preleukaemia or smoldering leukaemia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| syndactylism |
The condition in which two or more toes are more or less completely grown together or adherent
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| syndesmosis |
Artificial ankylosis by fibrous connection
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| syndactyly |
webbing or complete joining of fingers and or toes
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| syndrome |
All the signs and symptoms associated with a disease.
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| syndactylism |
Having two or more toes fused together.
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