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Which disease is known as wool sorter's disease?
This disease is also called rag pickers disease. It is a form of pulmonary anthrax. The anthrax spores are inhaled.
What Factors known to be related to a disease but not proven to be causal are called?
risk factor?
What condition or disease is characterized by exophthalmos?
The name of the disease is 'Graves' disease'. It is also called as primary hyperthyroidism. You have exophthaloms , pretibial non pitting type of oedema and hyperthyroidism in Graves' disease.
What is the oldest known disease?
Leprosy.
Is sickle sell disease acute or chronic?
I have always known it as a chronic disease
What disease in children called rickets is known as in adults?
osteomalacia
What disease in children in which an inefficient mineralization of the bone forming tissue causes deformities?
rickets also known as osteomalacia
What are facts about rickets?
Rickets is a deficiency disease if you have a lack of Vitamin d. Rickets is when the bones soften and start to disintegrate, you can get Vitamin A through citrus fruits and vegetables and also through sunlight. It is mainly common in young children, especially young dark skinned children, for they don't collect as much sunlight.dark skinned people collect the most sun!
What diseases are caused by lack of vitamin D?
Rickets, Hypovitaminosis D
What is rickets known as?
Ostcomalacia
What disease may be caused by a vitamin c deficiency?
A disease known as scurvy is caused by a vitamin c deficiency
Which condition is known as adult rickets?
The term "rickets" is used almost exclusively to refer to a deficiency disease in children caused by a shortage of vitamin D, which causes the bones to develope abnormally. This is because the body cannot properly metabolize calcium without sufficient vitamin D. Adults might also have vitamin D deficiencies and calcium absorption problems, but the bones are already formed, and rickets refers to the formative years - that is, childhood. A person using the term "adult rickets" is probably stretching the meaning for lack of a better term.
What is the vitamin D or VDR dysfunction and how is it resolved?
VDR or Vitamin D Rickets, is a disease of children characterized by stunted growth and deformed bones stemming from insufficient bone mineralization. Vitamin D deficiency in adults is known as osteomalacia, a condition characterized by weakened and demineralized bones. Although rickets was first described in 1645, it was not until the early 20th century that it was discovered that animal fats, particularly fish liver oils, are effective in preventing this disease. Furthermore, richets can be prevented by exposing children to sunlight or just to UV light in the wavelenght range from 230 to 313 nm, regardless of their diets.
Do non communicable diseases include diseases couse by lack of nutritious food?
Yes. Malnutrition is considered a non-communicable disease. One well known is rickets which occurs from a lack of vitamin D.
What is Camperman disease?
To date, there is no known medical entity or condition called Camperman disease.
A disease with no known cause is called?
IdiopathicFrom http://en.wiktionary.orgAdjectiveidiopathic(pathology) Of, relating to, or designating a disease having no known cause.
People who have become addicted to alcohol suffer from a disease called?
This disease is widely known as Alchohalism.
