Chronic diarrhea due to glucoamylase deficiency is a rare gut disease where the small intestine does not have enough of the enzyme glucoamylase (also called ...

Mossy foot disease is a long-term swelling of the feet and lower legs that happens when people walk barefoot for many years on special irritant soils, usually ...

Chromoblastomycosis is a long-lasting (chronic) fungal infection that affects the skin and the tissue just under the skin (subcutaneous tissue). In this ...

Chromomycosis (more correctly called chromoblastomycosis) is a long-lasting fungal infection of the skin and the layer of fat just under the skin. It happens ...

Chorea, remitting, with nystagmus and cataract is an extremely rare, inherited brain and eye condition. It causes three main problems in the same child: chorea ...

Levine–Critchley syndrome is an old name for a rare brain and blood disease that doctors now usually call chorea-acanthocytosis or VPS13A disease. It is a ...

Osteochondrodysplasia means a group of rare conditions where the bones and cartilage do not grow and develop in a normal way. “Osteo” means bone, “chondro” ...

Blomstrand lethal chondrodysplasia is a very rare, very severe genetic bone disease that affects a baby before birth and around the time of birth. In this ...

Hereditary calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) is a rare joint disease that runs in families. In this condition, tiny crystals made from calcium ...

Familial calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease (familial CPPD) is a rare inherited type of arthritis in which tiny calcium pyrophosphate crystals ...

Familial Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease (familial CPPD) is a rare inherited joint disease in which tiny calcium pyrophosphate crystals build up ...

Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease (CPPD), also called pseudogout, happens when tiny calcium pyrophosphate crystals build up in the ...

Chondrocalcinosis means there are calcium crystals sitting inside the cartilage of a joint. Cartilage is the smooth, rubbery tissue that covers the ends of ...

Codman’s tumor is an older name for chondroblastoma, a rare, usually benign bone tumor that grows from immature cartilage-forming cells called chondroblasts at ...

Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL-D) is a rare inherited disease in which the body cannot make enough of an enzyme called lysosomal acid lipase. This ...

Cholesterol ester hydrolase deficiency is an old name for a rare genetic disease in which the body does not make enough of an enzyme called lysosomal acid ...

Vibrio cholerae infectious disease, usually called cholera, is an acute (very sudden) diarrheal illness caused by a spiral-shaped, gram-negative bacterium that ...

Cholera is a very fast, very watery type of diarrhea caused by a germ called Vibrio cholerae that lives in contaminated water or food. The germ makes a toxin ...

Chikungunya virus infectious disease is an illness caused by a tiny germ called the chikungunya virus. This virus enters the human body mainly through the bite ...

Chikungunya Virus Disease or Disorder is caused by the chikungunya virus. This virus is an RNA virus in the alphavirus group of the Togaviridae family. It ...