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Cone Dystrophy
Cone dystrophy is a rare eye disease where the cone cells in the retina slowly stop working properly. Cone cells are the light-sensing cells that help...
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Congenital Absence of Both Forearm and Hand
Congenital? absence of both forearm and hand is a rare birth condition. In this condition, the baby is born with the upper arm present, but the...
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Congenital Myopathy 1A
Congenital? myopathy 1A is a genetic muscle condition that usually starts at birth or early childhood. “Congenital?” means present from birth, and “myopathy” means a muscle...
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Insertional Polydactyly
Insertional polydactyly is a birth difference where a person has an extra finger or toe that sits “in the middle” of the hand or foot, instead...
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Intercalary Polydactyly
Intercalary polydactyly (also called central polydactyly or mesoaxial polydactyly) means a baby is born with an extra finger or toe that appears between the normal digits,...
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Mesoaxial Polydactyly
Mesoaxial polydactyly (also called central polydactyly) means that a person is born with an extra finger or toe in the middle part of the hand or...
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Mesoaxial Polydactyly
Mesoaxial polydactyly of the fingers means there is an extra finger in the middle part of the hand, usually next to the index, middle, or ring...
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Mirror Hand
Mirror hand, also called ulnar dimelia, is an extremely rare birth difference where the bones on the “little-finger side” of the forearm (the ulna and the...
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Myoseptum Inflammation
Myoseptum inflammation? is a thin sheet of strong connective tissue that lies between blocks of muscle fibers. It acts like a wall or partition inside the...
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Myoseptumitis
Myoseptumitis is a medical word that means inflammation? of the myoseptum, which is the thin wall of tissue inside a muscle that separates small bundles of...
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Paroxysmal Exercise-Induced Dystonia (PED)
Paroxysmal exercise-induced dystonia (PED) is a rare brain movement problem. It causes short attacks of abnormal movements when a person does long or strong exercise, like...
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Peroneal Muscular Atrophy
Peroneal muscular atrophy? is an older name for Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT). It is a group of inherited (genetic) nerve diseases that slowly damage the peripheral nerves...
