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DefinitionAcute? Spinal Cord Injury/Spinal Cord Injury, The spinal cord is a tubular structure composed of nervous tissue that extends from the brainstem and continuing distally before...
DefinitionAcute? Transverse Myelitis/Myelitis is an acute? or subacute rare demyelinating and immune-mediated inflammatory myelopathy? disorder of the central nervous system and spinal cord resulting in potentially...
DefinitionAcute? Whiplash injury is a hyperextension and flexion injury to the neck or sudden thrusting forwards due to forceful, rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck, like the...
DefinitionAicardi syndrome is a rare, severe, neuro-developmental disorder that almost always affects girls and XXY boys because it is presumed to be lethal in typical XY...
DefinitionAllodynia is the experience of pain? from stimuli that isn’t normally painful. People with migraine? will often describe this experience by saying, “My hair hurts.” Brushing the...
DefinitionAnal canal dysfunction refers to a range of conditions that affect the anal canal, a critical part of the body’s digestive system. This dysfunction can cause...
DefinitionAnatomy of Spinal Cord Injury/Spinal Cord Injury, The spinal cord is a tubular structure composed of nervous tissue that extends from the brainstem and continuing distally...
DefinitionAneurysm-osteoarthritis? syndrome is a rare, inherited connective-tissue disorder. It mainly causes bulging (aneurysms), stretching (tortuosity), or tearing (dissection) of arteries anywhere in the body, and it...
Ankylosing spondylitis (Bechterew’s disease or Marie Struempell disease as it is also known) (AS) is a chronic? progressive inflammatory arthropathy or seronegative spondyloarthropathy or inflammatory form of...
DefinitionAn annular cervical? herniated disc? occurs when the gel-like center of a neck disc (nucleus pulposus) pushes through a tear in its tough outer ring (annulus...
DefinitionAnnular disc bulging occurs when the outer ring (annulus fibrosus) of an intervertebral disc weakens and pushes outward beyond its normal boundary. Unlike a herniation, the...
