Levine–Critchley Syndrome
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 lifelong (chronic) genetic disease. It ...
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Osteochondrodysplasia
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” means cartilage, and “dysplasia” means ...
Blomstrand Lethal Chondrodysplasia
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 condition, the baby’s bones harden too early ...
Hereditary Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition (CPPD)
Hereditary calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) is a rare joint disease that runs in families. In this condition, tiny crystals made from calcium pyrophosphate build up inside the cartilage and ...
Familial Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Deposition Disease
Familial calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease (familial CPPD) is a rare inherited type of arthritis in which tiny calcium pyrophosphate crystals build up inside the cartilage and lining ...
Familial Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
Familial Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease (familial CPPD) is a rare inherited joint disease in which tiny calcium pyrophosphate crystals build up inside the cartilage and soft tissue of the ...
Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Crystal Deposition Disease (CPPD)
Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease (CPPD), also called pseudogout, happens when tiny calcium pyrophosphate crystals build up in the joint cartilage and soft tissues. These ...
Chondrocalcinosis
Chondrocalcinosis means there are calcium crystals sitting inside the cartilage of a joint. Cartilage is the smooth, rubbery tissue that covers the ends of bones and helps the joint move easily. In ...
Codman’s Tumor
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 the end of long bones, close to the ...
Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency (LAL-D)
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 enzyme normally breaks down special fats ...
Cholesterol Ester Hydrolase Deficiency
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 lipase (LAL). This enzyme’s job is to break ...
Vibrio Cholerae Infectious Disease
Vibrio cholerae infectious disease, usually called cholera, is an acute (very sudden) diarrheal illness caused by a spiral-shaped, gram-negative bacterium that lives in water and gets into the body ...
Cholera
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 in the small intestine that pulls large ...
Chikungunya Virus Infectious Disease
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 of an infected Aedes mosquito, the same ...
Chikungunya Virus Disease or Disorder
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 spreads to people through the bite of ...
Hemorrhagic Fever Caused by Chapare Virus
Hemorrhagic fever caused by Chapare virus is a rare but very serious viral illness. It is caused by a virus called Chapare virus, which belongs to a group of viruses known as arenaviruses. The virus ...
Chapare Hemorrhagic Fever
Chapare hemorrhagic fever is a rare but very serious viral illness caused by the Chapare virus, which belongs to the mammarenavirus group in the Arenaviridae family. The virus was first identified in ...
Soft Chancre Chancroid
Soft chancre, also called chancroid, is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that causes very painful sores (ulcers) on the genitals or nearby skin. It is caused by a bacterium called Haemophilus ...
Ducrey’s Chancre
Ducrey’s chancre is a painful open sore on the genital area that happens because of a sexually transmitted infection called chancroid. The infection is caused by a bacteria named Haemophilus ducreyi. ...
Chancroidal Bubo
Chancroidal bubo means a swollen, painful group of lymph nodes in the groin that happens because of chancroid, a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacteria Haemophilus ducreyi. The germs ...
