a chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine; sometimes leads to ankylosis
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Scleroderma
A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.
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a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack o…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.a chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine; sometimes leads to ankylosis
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack o…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack o…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.autoantibody that is usually present in the serum of people with rheumatoid arthritis
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.a chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine; sometimes leads to ankylosis
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss an…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.a chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40; characterized by an eruption of red lesions over th…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.a chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40; characterized by an eruption of red lesions over th…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.exophthalmos occurring in association with goiter; hyperthyroidism with protrusion of the eyeballs
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss an…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, Rheumatology.autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland; most common in middle-aged women
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a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny har…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.eczema characterized by thickening of the skin with accentuated skin lines
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: disease, adults, characterized, diffuse, rigidity.Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse…
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