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General Illness Information Medical Term: Hemorrhoids Common Name: Hemorrhoids, piles Description: Hemorrhoids is a disease of the so-called hemorrhoidal veins located around the rectum and anus. The disease is accompanied by a pathological increase in the volume of these vessels, as well as their thrombosis, which often leads to the formation of nodes, their prolapse from the rectum to the outside, changes in the mucous membranes. The disease causes considerable…

General Illness Information Medical Term: Bladder carcinoma Common Name: Bladder cancer Description: Bladder cancer is a malignant tumor invasion of the mucosa or wall of the bladder. Causes: Until now, scientists can not find the exact cause of bladder cancer and can not fully define what provokes healthy cells to turn into malignant cells. But they highlight the most important and frequently occurring causes that trigger the onset of cancer….

General Illness Information Medical Term: Hypoglycemia Common Name: low blood sugar Description: Hypoglycemia is a pathological condition characterized by a low level of glucose in the blood (below 3.3 mmol / l). Causes: Factors that can trigger a drop in glucose levels are numerous. However, the most common risk factors are the following: Starvation; Insulinoma (a hormone-active tumor of pancreatic β-cells); The intake of insulin, oral hypoglycemic drugs, less often…

General Illness Information Medical Term: Vaginitis Common Name: Vaginal inflammation Description: Vaginitis is an inflammation of the vaginal mucosa caused by the activity of pathogenic microorganisms. The most common types of vaginitis: Bacterial vaginitis, as a result of the excessively rapid growth of one of several organisms present in the vagina; Fungal infections, which are usually caused by a Candida albicans fungus; Trichomoniasis, which is caused by a parasite and…

General Illness Information Medical Term: Parotitis, epidemic parotitis Common Name: Mumps Description: Epidemic parotitis (mumps) is a highly contagious anthropo infection. The causative agent of the mumps is the mumps virus, which is very common among the human population, belongs to the family of paramyxoviruses, paramyxovirus parotitis, has a kinship with the influenza virus. Causes: The causative agent of the mumps relates to paramyxoviruses (family Paramyxoviridae, genus Paramyxovirus). The source…

General Illness Information Medical Term: Eczema Common Name: fungal infections, fungus infections. fungal diseases, fungal skin infections. Description: Fungal infections are infectious diseases, caused by representatives of fungi. These include heterogeneous infections, most of which occur against the background of immunodeficiency states. Classification: Fungal infections are divided into the following forms (by type of pathogen): Candida infections (fungus of the genus Candida); Trichophytosis (fungal infections of the skin, nails, mucous membranes); Cryptococcosis…

General Illness Information Medical Term: Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma Common Name: ACC, adrenal cortical carcinoma, adrenal cortical cancer, adrenal cortex cancer Description: Adrenal cortical carcinoma is a malignant tumor that develops from the adrenal cortex cells. The disease is considered extremely rare. Causes: No one knows the exact causes of cancer development, although research work in this direction is very active. It is known that some genes (sections of our DNA) contain instructions for…

General Illness Information Medical Term: Ovarian Carcinoma Common Name: Ovarian cancer, ovarian tumor Description: Ovarian cancer is a group of different types of neoplasms that arise in various tissues in the ovaries. The most common type of cancer is one in which the spread of cancer cells occurs along the surface of the ovaries. Causes: Genetic predisposition. There are genes that increase the likelihood of developing ovarian cancer. According to…

General Illness Information Medical Term: Hyaline membrane disease Common Name: Respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal RDS Description: Respiratory distress syndrome is a special condition of the body, when the respiratory system can not provide the necessary volume of oxygen. In this case, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood increases significantly and can reach a critical level. This syndrome is a kind of consequence of the inferior exchange of carbon…

General Illness Information Common Name: Paget’s disease Medical Term: Deforming osteitis, deforming osteoporosis, deforming osteodystrophy Description: Paget’s disease occurs when the mechanism of restoring the bones of the body is damaged. Bone is a living tissue that is constantly destroyed and restored, this process is called “bone remodeling.” In the bones affected by Paget’s disease, the process of remodeling is broken, which leads to a disruption in the structure of…