name/history of the disease The name celiac comes from "coeliac" which is derived from the Greek Koilia‚ which means belly. The "coeliac flux" is an old expression meaning the same as diarrhea. The disease celiac is not just diarrhea though it just means that the disease pertains to the abdomen. The celiac disease comes from early farmers and hunters. But because the wheat and grain of the crops and fields did not have high levels of gluten they were not exposed to the disease very often. Those
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Huntington’s disease is an inherited disease. Huntington disease results from altered activity of basal nuclei neurons. Basal nuclei neurons gradually deteriorate‚ resulting in unrestrained movement. Huntington’s disease has a extreme impact on a person’s functional abilities and usually results in movement‚ thinking and psychiatric disorders. Most people with Huntington’s disease will develop signs and symptoms in their 30s or 40s. But the disease can emerge earlier or later in life. If the disease develops
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Huntington’s disease is a hereditary brain disorder that is progressive in neurodegeneration; which means‚ there is a loss of function and structures of one’s neurons. In the long run it results in the loss of both mental and physical control. The disease affects muscle coordination‚ cognition and behavior. It used to be known as Huntington’s chorea because it is the most common genetic disease that is the cause of abnormal twitching. Huntington ’s has an intense effect on patients‚ as individuals
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Dercum’s Disease Imagine waking up‚ with painful bumps on your body‚ questioning how and why this was happening to you‚ the feeling of your skin clutching with pain from globs of fatty tumors forming beneath your skin. Robbing your energy and strength. This is a rare condition called Dercum’s Disease. This abnormal disease is characterized by multiple‚ fatty lipomas that occur primarily in postmenopausal‚ obese women in their middle age. Although 20 times more common in women than in
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Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible‚ neurological condition that impairs the brain’s functioning. The exact cause of Alzheimer’s disease is not known. Early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are usually memory loss. There are other symptoms that include having problems with learning‚ paying attention‚ judgment and orientation. (Aronson 15) In general‚ people who have major personality and behavior changes might have Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease usually affects older
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or tissues in the body that is essential for good health. Your own immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys your body tissue that it believes to be foreign. Some of the major autoimmune diseases are; Active Chronic Hepatitis‚ Addison’s Disease‚ Anti-phospholipid Syndrome‚ Celiac Disease‚ Crohns Disease‚ Cushings Syndrome‚ Dermatomyositis‚ (Type I) Diabetes‚ Discoid Lupus‚ Multiple Sclerosis‚ Pemphigoid‚ Rheumatoid Arthritis‚ Systemic Lupus Erythematosis‚ and Fibromyalgia Fibromyositis. There
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A disease in which the bowel becomes inflamed is known as Inflammatory Bowel disease. It refers to two inflammatory conditions- Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Ulcerative colitis only affects the colitis‚ but Crohn’s disease is more complicated than ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s disease is the chronic inflammation of any part of gastrointestinal tract and involves all the layers of bowel wall. The genetic factors‚ immune system disorders‚ environmental factors (air‚ food‚ etc.) are the main
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Anatomy and Physiology 2‚ SCI 136 Research Project # 40904000 Doing research on Alzheimer’s disease was very disheartening‚ just knowing what some people have to deal with on a daily basis was hard to imagine. I mean the simple definition of the disease is “progressive mental deterioration occurring in middle or old age‚ due to generalized degeneration of the brain.” As you can imagine‚ that can take a toll on someone’s emotional stability‚ which can eventually lead to depression. Most
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Parkinson’s Disease has been around since ancient times and man have been aware of the disease since then. In western Medicine a physician named Galen described Parkinson’s as “shaking palsy” in AD. 175. A thorough medical essay was published about the “shaking palsy” in 1871 by London doctor James Parkinson. The disease was named after Parkinson and his essay was called “An Essay of the Shaking Palsy.” The essay paved the way for parkinson’s and established it as medical condition. Parkinson’s
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Heart disease is a leading cause of mortality around the world. These diseases can range from coronary artery disease‚ blood vessel diseases‚ to congenital heart defects. Many patients that are affected by these diseases are treated with pills that have hazardous side effects‚ surgeries that induce trauma to the patient’s body (stents for vascular intervention‚ or balloon angioplasty‚ etc) or heart transplants that are dependent on the patient’s immune system. The bodies of these patients under go
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