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Caused by mutations that lead to defects in neuronal proteins. Resulting in distal muscle wastage and lose of sensation.
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Charcot marie tooth disease
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Compresion of the flexor retinaculum, categorised by thenar wastage and tingling in the first 3 and a half digits.
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Carpal tunnel syndrome
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A collection of blood in the pleural space.
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Haemothorax
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Most common disease caused by demyelination of the CNS
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Multiple sclerosis
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Caused by a thickening of palmar connective tissue into nodules, leading to reduced ability to extend fingers, typically effects ring finger first.
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Dupuytren's contracture
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Neuropathy affecting C5/C6 nerves, resulting in waiter's tip deformity.
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Erb's palsy
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Neuropathy affecting C8-T1, leads to a claw hand, the same deformity that Kaiser Wilhelm had.
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Klumpke's palsy
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Tendon of a finger becomes inflamed/swollen leading it to catch on the tendon sheath during extension.
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Trigger finger
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A tumour/fluid filled swelling that normally arises on top of a joint or tendon.
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Ganglion cyst
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Inflamation of extensors of the forearm, a common injury of tennis players. (medical term)
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Lateral epichondylitis
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Name given to the mutation that Queen Elizabeth I supposedly had, where one has an additional digit on their hand.
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Polydactyly
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Rare disoder in which your immune system starts to attack your PNS.
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Guillain barré syndrome
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Where your stomach protrudes through your diaphragm in to the chest.
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Hiatus hernia
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Genetic disease of the connective tissue of the body. People who have it tend to be very tall (an example being Abraham Lincoln) and have a very dilated aorta.
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Marfan syndrome
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Serious condition in which the inner layer of the aorta splits, leading to blood to surge into the space between the inner and middle layers leading to them seperating.
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Aortic dissection
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A whole between the left and right atrium that did not fuse during birth.
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Patent foramen ovale
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Back flow of blood through valves in the heart.
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Stenosis
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Caused by a branch of clostridium bacteria, leads to painful long lasting muscle spasm. It does this by preventing release of inhibitory neurotransmiters GABA and glycine at the start of motor neurones.
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Tetanus
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A connection between the pulmonary artery and the aorta
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Patent ductus arteriosus
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Genetic disease that leads to an uncontrolled mucus secretionclogging up the lungs and other places.
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Cystic fibrosis
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Mannose residues not phosphorylated leading to a build up of molecules in the intracellular matrix that need to be broken down by lysosomes.
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Mucolipodosis II
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High cholesterol levels.
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Hypercholestrolaemia
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When a child's body turns into an adults too soon.
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Precocious puberty
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Bacterial disease spread through water, leads to watery diarrhoea dehydration and potentially death if untreated.
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Cholera
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Highly infectious disease, starts similar to a cold, but leads to on going heavy coughing with a very distinctive sound.
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Whooping cough
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May be cause by a pancoast tumour, is a disruption of nervous stimulation of the face, normally on one side, leads to drooping eye lid, and decreased pupil size to name a few symptoms.
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Horner syndrome
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