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  • Thumbnail for Atrophy
    Atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body. Causes of atrophy include mutations (which can destroy the gene to build up the...
    8 KB (886 words) - 16:52, 24 March 2024
  • Cerebral atrophy is a common feature of many of the diseases that affect the brain. Atrophy of any tissue means a decrement in the size of the cell, which...
    21 KB (2,196 words) - 22:03, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Muscle atrophy
    musculoskeletal or nervous system. Muscle atrophy leads to muscle weakness and causes disability. Disuse causes rapid muscle atrophy and often occurs during injury...
    30 KB (3,515 words) - 23:54, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atrophic vaginitis
    Atrophic vaginitis is inflammation of the vagina as a result of tissue thinning due to low estrogen levels. Symptoms may include pain with sex, vaginal...
    37 KB (3,985 words) - 05:37, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Multiple system atrophy
    Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by tremors, slow movement, muscle rigidity, postural instability (collectively...
    52 KB (5,427 words) - 20:39, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Testicular atrophy
    function. Testicular atrophy is not related to the temporary shrinkage of the surrounding scrotum, which might occur in response to cold temperature. As...
    24 KB (2,820 words) - 20:13, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spinal muscular atrophy
    Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting. It is usually...
    90 KB (10,010 words) - 03:07, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atrophic gastritis
    Atrophic gastritis is a process of chronic inflammation of the gastric mucosa of the stomach, leading to a loss of gastric glandular cells and their eventual...
    9 KB (920 words) - 17:53, 15 October 2024
  • Atrophy is an American thrash metal band formed in Tucson, Arizona. Atrophy, originally named Heresy, was formed in 1986 by Chris Lykins, James Gulotta...
    7 KB (561 words) - 14:26, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Breast atrophy
    Breast atrophy is the normal or spontaneous atrophy or shrinkage of the breasts. Breast atrophy commonly occurs in women during menopause when estrogen...
    5 KB (370 words) - 04:49, 28 July 2024
  • Brown atrophy of the heart is atrophy of the heart muscle (or myocardium) commonly found in the elderly. It is described as brown because fibers become...
    1 KB (129 words) - 22:59, 20 June 2024
  • Geographic atrophy (GA), also known as atrophic age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or advanced dry AMD, is an advanced form of age-related macular...
    22 KB (2,654 words) - 18:25, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
    Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), popularly known as Kennedy's disease, is a rare, adult-onset, X-linked recessive lower motor neuron disease...
    43 KB (4,927 words) - 01:11, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steroid-induced skin atrophy
    Steroid-induced skin atrophy is thinning of the skin as a result of prolonged exposure to topical steroids. In people with psoriasis using topical steroids...
    10 KB (1,055 words) - 05:21, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Posterior cortical atrophy
    Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), also called Benson's syndrome, is a rare form of dementia which is considered a visual variant or an atypical variant...
    20 KB (2,119 words) - 18:17, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Progressive muscular atrophy
    Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA), also called Duchenne–Aran disease and Duchenne–Aran muscular atrophy, is a disorder characterised by the degeneration...
    11 KB (1,316 words) - 21:13, 17 September 2022
  • vision until the examiner asks them to cover the healthy eye. Optic neuropathy is often called optic atrophy, to describe the loss of some or most of...
    20 KB (2,607 words) - 18:38, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parry–Romberg syndrome
    skin, usually on only one side of the face (hemifacial atrophy) but occasionally extending to other parts of the body. An autoimmune mechanism is suspected...
    23 KB (2,264 words) - 07:14, 22 October 2024
  • reproductive disorder characterized by hypoplasia of the uterus. It is usually due to pubertal failure/hypogonadism and may be treated with puberty induction using...
    1 KB (47 words) - 23:12, 6 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hirayama disease
    is typically marked by insidious onset of muscle atrophy of an upper limb, which plateaus after two to five years from which it neither improves nor worsens...
    19 KB (2,254 words) - 09:12, 19 July 2024
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