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==Gangrene== Definition: Localized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from either obstructed circulation or bacterial infection. Gangrene is a condition that occurs when body tissue dies. It is caused by a loss of blood supply due to an underlying illness, injury, and/or infection. Fingers, toes, and limbs are most often affected, but gangrene can also occur inside the body, dama...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system mainly affecting the motor system. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement-related; these include shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stag...
=Epidemics=The objective of this project is to study the effect of epidemics on our genealogies. Perhaps we can build up sub databases useful for human population studies. Hyperlink separate projects in the list so we can easily jump to them, and also add as a related project. ===10 deadliest epidemics in history===From Healthcare Business & Technology Insights It’s hard to imagine — in this da...
So, You're on a Disease?!====Ever so often people get coined a disease after their name. An eponyme. Regardless whether or not they came up with the given disease. Or due to some symptom, procedure, what have you...(Alois Alzheimer perhaps did not invent Alzheimer's disease, and Lou Gehrig was a sportsman, and not a physician.) ===It is the aim of this project to collect names here of individua...
ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language. "A" means no. "Myo" refers to muscle, and "Trophic" means nourishment – "No muscle nourishment." When a muscle has no nourishment, it "atrophies" or wastes away. "Lateral" identifies the areas in a person's spin...
Please add profiles for those who died as a POW in the US Civil War.=== Please also include any pertinent info in their About section relating to this, include the camp if known.If the cause of their death is know, please add them to that project (ie: died of disease, or died of wounds, etc.) Although precise figures may never be known, an estimated 56,000 men perished in Civil War prisons, a c...
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Borrelia type. The most common sign of infection is an expanding area of redness, known as erythema migrans, that begins at the site of a tick bite about a week after it has occurred. The rash is typically neither itchy nor painful. About 25% of people do not develop a rash. Other early symptoms may...
Please add the profiles of those who died from Glanders.== Even though this disease is associated with horses, donkeys & mules, Glanders can be transmitted to humans. Glanders (from Middle English glaundres or Old French glandres, both meaning glands; Latin: malleus, German: Rotz; also known as "equinia", "farcy", and "malleus") is a highly contagious infectious disease that occurs primarily in...