17th October 2008
Myopia also known as Nearsightedness and Shortsightedness. Myopia is a refractive defect of the eye in which line up light produces picture hub in front of the retina when accommodation is relaxed. Nearsightedness occurs if the eyeball is too long or the ...
17th October 2008
Myotonia congenita is a chloride channel disorder. Myotonia congenita is an inherited condition that affects muscle relaxation. The condition is present since premature childhood, but symptoms can be mild. Most children will be 2 or 3 years old when pare...
17th October 2008
Myositis is a rare disease in which the immune system chronically inflames the body's own healthy muscle tissue. Myositis is inflammation of your skeletal muscles, which are also called the deliberate muscles. These are the muscles you consciously control...
17th October 2008
Myocarditis is collection of diseases of infectious, toxic, and autoimmune etiologies characterized by inflammation of the heart. Myocarditis can be caused by a diversity of infections and conditions such as viruses, sarcoidosis, and immune diseases (syst...
17th October 2008
Ménétrier's disease is also called giant hypertrophic gastritis, protein losing gasteropathy, or hypertrophic gastropathy. Ménétrier's disease increases a person's risk of stomach cancer. Menetrier disease is a rare disorder characterized by massive o...
17th October 2008
Meige's syndrome is a type of dystonia. Dystonia is a group of movement disorders that vary in their symptoms, causes, progression, and treatments. This group of neurological conditions is generally characterized by involuntary muscle contractions that fo...
17th October 2008
Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in kids. Medulloblastomas are tumors that occur in the posterior fossa region of the brain. These tumors are also referred to as primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET). Tumors that have the similar ...
17th October 2008
Melanoma is the most risky type of skin cancer. Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes which are found predominantly in skin but also in the bowel and the eye. It is due to wild growth of pigment cells, called melanocytes. Melanin also protects the ...
17th October 2008
Menkes syndrome is an inborn error of metabolism in which cells in the body cannot absorb enough copper. Copper added at oddly low levels in the liver and brain, but at elevated than normal levels in the kidney and intestinal lining. The disorder causes s...
17th October 2008
Monilethrix is an autosomal dominant hair disease that results in short, fragile, broken hair that appears beaded. Mutations in the person basic hair keratins hHb1 and hHb6 have recently been reported in this disease. These changes in the helix-encoding a...
17th October 2008
Meningococcemia is an acute disease of the bloodstream and developing vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels). Meningococcemia is caused by bacteria called Neisseria meningitidis. N meningitidis infection can be clinically polymorphic. The most com...
17th October 2008
Metabolic disorders are genetic conditions where enzymes used to digest food do not function properly. They can lead to mild to severe brain damage, physical disability, organ failure and even death. Metabolism is the process your body uses to get or make...
17th October 2008
Meralgia paresthetica is also known as lateral femoral cutaneous nerve syndrome. Meralgia paresthetica is a condition that can cause burning pain over the outside of the thigh. There is a nerve that passes just over the bony prominence of the pelvis and d...
17th October 2008
Melioidosis also called Whitmore's disease. Melioidosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. Melioidosis is common in parts of the world of south East Asia (including Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Burma and Vietnam)...
17th October 2008
Meningioma is common type of dilatory growing, generally benign brain tumor that arises from the dura, one of the meninges, the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. A meningioma can begin in any part of the brain or spinal cord, but the most comm...
