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Mesh

Mesh consists of semi-permeable barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material. Mesh is similar to web or net in that it has many attached or woven strands.-Types of mesh:...

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--- multiple chemical sensitivity

Multiple chemical sensitivity

Multiple chemical sensitivity is a chronic medical condition characterized by symptoms the affected person attributes to exposure to low levels of chemicals. Commonly suspected substances include smoke, pesticides, plastics, synthetic fabrics, scented products, petroleum products and paints...

--- agricultural workers' diseases

--- farmer's lung

Farmer's lung

Farmer's lung is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis induced by the inhalation of biologic dusts coming from hay dust or mould spores or other agricultural products. It results in a type III hypersensitivity inflammatory response and can progress to become a chronic condition which is considered...

 --- silo filler's disease

--- high pressure neurological syndrome

--- pneumoconiosis

Pneumoconiosis

Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease and a restrictive lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust, often in mines.-Types:Depending upon the type of dust, the disease is given different names:...

--- asbestosis

Asbestosis

Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory and fibrotic medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs caused by the inhalation and retention of asbestos fibers...

 --- berylliosis

Berylliosis

Berylliosis, or chronic beryllium disease , is a chronic allergic-type lung response and chronic lung disease caused by exposure to beryllium and its compounds. As an occupational lung disease, it is most classically associated with beryllium mining or manufacturing of fluorescent light bulbs...

 --- byssinosis

Byssinosis

Byssinosis, also called "brown lung disease" or "Monday fever", is an occupational lung disease caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments. Byssinosis commonly occurs in workers who are employed in yarn and fabric manufacture industries...

 --- caplan's syndrome

Caplan's syndrome

Caplan's syndrome is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear homogenous and well-defined on chest X-ray.. The syndrome is named after Dr...

 --- siderosis

Siderosis

Siderosis is the deposition of iron in tissue.When used without qualification, it usually refers to an environmental disease of the lung.Also Siderosis Bulbi, deposition of iron into the eye causing injury as the material chemically reacts with tissues and cells.-Causative agent:Iron oxide present...

 --- silicosis

Silicosis

Silicosis, also known as Potter's rot, is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in forms of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs...

 --- anthracosilicosis --- silicotuberculosis

--- sleep disorders, circadian rhythm

--- bites and stings

--- arachnidism

Arachnidism

Arachnidism is a medical condition, simply defined as envenomation by a spider bite, which, depending on the species, will have various effects. Bites from the widow spiders produce a condition known as Latrodectism, while bites from the recluse spiders cause Loxoscelism...

 --- insect bites and stings --- snake bites --- tick toxicoses --- tick paralysis

Tick paralysis

Tick paralysis is the only tick-borne disease that is not caused by an infectious organism. The illness is caused by a neurotoxin produced in the tick's salivary gland. After prolonged attachment, the engorged tick transmits the toxin to its host...

--- carbon tetrachloride poisoning

--- drug toxicity

--- drug eruptions --- epidermal necrolysis, toxic --- erythema nodosum

Erythema nodosum

Erythema nodosum is an inflammation of the fat cells under the skin characterized by tender red nodules or lumps that are usually seen on both shins...

 --- serum sickness

Serum sickness

Serum sickness in humans is a reaction to proteins in antiserum derived from an non-human animal source. It is a type of hypersensitivity, specifically immune complex hypersensitivity . The term serum sickness–like reaction is occasionally used to refer to similar illnesses that arise from the...

 --- serotonin syndrome

Serotonin syndrome

Serotonin syndrome is a potentially life-threatening adverse drug reaction that may occur following therapeutic drug use, inadvertent interactions between drugs, overdose of particular drugs, or the recreational use of certain drugs...

--- food poisoning

--- botulism

Botulism

Botulism also known as botulinus intoxication is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by botulinum toxin which is metabolic waste produced under anaerobic conditions by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, and affecting a wide range of mammals, birds and fish...

 --- ciguatera poisoning --- favism --- mushroom poisoning

Mushroom poisoning

Mushroom poisoning refers to harmful effects from ingestion of toxic substances present in a mushroom. These symptoms can vary from slight gastrointestinal discomfort to death. The toxins present are secondary metabolites produced in specific biochemical pathways in the fungal cells...

 --- salmonella food poisoning --- staphylococcal food poisoning

--- gas poisoning

--- carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs after enough inhalation of carbon monoxide . Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas, but, being colorless, odorless, tasteless, and initially non-irritating, it is very difficult for people to detect...

 --- inert gas narcosis

--- hepatitis, toxic

--- hepatitis, chronic, drug-induced

--- lead poisoning

Lead poisoning

Lead poisoning is a medical condition caused by increased levels of the heavy metal lead in the body. Lead interferes with a variety of body processes and is toxic to many organs and tissues including the heart, bones, intestines, kidneys, and reproductive and nervous systems...

--- lead poisoning, nervous system --- lead poisoning, nervous system, adult --- lead poisoning, nervous system, childhood

--- mercury poisoning

Mercury poisoning

Mercury poisoning is a disease caused by exposure to mercury or its compounds. Mercury is a heavy metal occurring in several forms, all of which can produce toxic effects in high enough doses...

--- mercury poisoning, nervous system --- acrodynia

--- mycotoxicosis

--- ergotism

Ergotism

Ergotism is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs. It is also known as ergotoxicosis, ergot...

 --- mushroom poisoning

Mushroom poisoning

Mushroom poisoning refers to harmful effects from ingestion of toxic substances present in a mushroom. These symptoms can vary from slight gastrointestinal discomfort to death. The toxins present are secondary metabolites produced in specific biochemical pathways in the fungal cells...

--- neurotoxicity syndromes

--- akathisia, drug-induced --- alcohol-induced disorders, nervous system --- alcohol amnestic disorder --- korsakoff syndrome --- alcohol withdrawal delirium --- alcohol withdrawal seizures --- alcoholic neuropathy --- dyskinesia, drug-induced --- mptp poisoning --- neuroleptic malignant syndrome

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a life- threatening neurological disorder most often caused by an adverse reaction to neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs...

--- plant poisoning

--- ergotism

Ergotism

Ergotism is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs. It is also known as ergotoxicosis, ergot...

 --- favism --- lathyrism

Lathyrism

Lathyrism or Neurolathyrism is a neurological disease of humans and domestic animals, caused by eating certain legumes of the genus Lathyrus...

 --- milk sickness

Milk sickness

Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting, or in animals as trembles, is characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who ingest milk or other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot, which contains the poison...

--- psychoses, substance-induced

--- psychoses, alcoholic

--- alcohol-related disorders

--- alcohol-induced disorders --- alcohol-induced disorders, nervous system --- alcohol amnestic disorder --- korsakoff syndrome --- alcohol withdrawal delirium --- alcohol withdrawal seizures --- alcoholic neuropathy --- cardiomyopathy, alcoholic --- fetal alcohol syndrome

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Fetal alcohol syndrome is a pattern of mental and physical defects that can develop in a fetus in association with high levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Current research also implicates other lifestyle choices made by the prospective mother...

 --- liver diseases, alcoholic --- fatty liver, alcoholic --- hepatitis, alcoholic --- liver cirrhosis, alcoholic --- pancreatitis, alcoholic --- psychoses, alcoholic --- alcoholic intoxication --- alcoholism

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...

 --- wernicke encephalopathy

--- amphetamine-related disorders

--- opioid-related disorders

--- heroin dependence --- morphine dependence

--- substance withdrawal syndrome

--- alcohol withdrawal delirium --- alcohol withdrawal seizures

--- abdominal injuries

--- hernia, diaphragmatic, traumatic --- splenic rupture --- splenosis --- stomach rupture

--- arm injuries

--- forearm injuries --- radius fractures --- ulna fractures --- humeral fractures --- shoulder dislocation --- shoulder fractures --- tennis elbow

Tennis elbow

Lateral epicondylitis or lateral epicondylalgia, also known as tennis elbow, shooter's elbow and archer's elbow, is a condition where the outer part of the elbow becomes sore and tender...

 --- wrist injuries

--- back injuries

--- spinal injuries --- spinal fractures

--- barotrauma

Barotrauma

Barotrauma is physical damage to body tissues caused by a difference in pressure between an air space inside or beside the body and the surrounding fluid...

--- blast injuries --- decompression sickness

Decompression sickness

Decompression sickness describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurization...

--- birth injuries

--- paralysis, obstetric

--- burn

Burn

A burn is an injury to flesh caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction.Burn may also refer to:*Combustion*Burn , type of watercourses so named in Scotland and north-eastern England...

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--- burns, chemical --- burns, electric --- burns, inhalation --- smoke inhalation injury --- eye burns --- sunburn

Sunburn

A sunburn is a burn to living tissue, such as skin, which is produced by overexposure to ultraviolet radiation, commonly from the sun's rays. Usual mild symptoms in humans and other animals include red or reddish skin that is hot to the touch, general fatigue, and mild dizziness. An excess of UV...

--- craniocerebral trauma

--- brain injuries --- brain concussion --- post-concussion syndrome

Post-concussion syndrome

Post-concussion syndrome, also known as postconcussive syndrome or PCS, and historically called shell shock, is a set of symptoms that a person may experience for weeks, months, or occasionally up to a year or more after a concussion – a mild form of traumatic brain injury . PCS may also...

 --- brain hemorrhage, traumatic --- brain stem hemorrhage, traumatic --- cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic --- brain injury, chronic --- diffuse axonal injury

Diffuse axonal injury

Diffuse axonal injury is one of the most common and devastating types of traumatic brain injury, meaning that damage occurs over a more widespread area than in focal brain injury. DAI, which refers to extensive lesions in white matter tracts, is one of the major causes of unconsciousness and...

 --- epilepsy, post-traumatic --- pneumocephalus

Pneumocephalus

Pneumocephalus is the presence of air or gas within the cranial cavity. It is usually associated with disruption of the skull: after head and facial trauma, tumors of the skull base, after neurosurgery or otorhinolaryngology, and rarely, spontaneously...

 --- shaken baby syndrome

Shaken baby syndrome

Shaken baby syndrome is a triad of medical symptoms: subdural hematoma, retinal hemorrhage, and brain swelling from which doctors, consistent with current medical understanding, infer child abuse caused by intentional shaking...

 --- cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea --- cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea --- coma, post-head injury --- cranial nerve injuries --- abducens nerve injury --- facial nerve injuries --- optic nerve injuries --- facial injuries --- eye injuries --- eye burns --- eye foreign bodies --- eye injuries, penetrating --- maxillofacial injuries --- jaw fractures --- mandibular fractures --- maxillary fractures --- mandibular injuries --- orbital fractures --- zygomatic fractures --- head injuries, closed --- head injuries, penetrating --- intracranial hemorrhage, traumatic --- hematoma, epidural, cranial --- hematoma, subdural --- hematoma, subdural, acute --- hematoma, subdural, chronic --- hematoma, subdural, intracranial --- subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic --- skull fractures --- skull fracture, basilar --- skull fracture, depressed

--- dislocations

--- hip dislocation --- knee dislocation --- patellar dislocation

Patellar dislocation

Patellar dislocations occur with significant regularity, particular in young female athletes. It involves the patella sliding out of its position on the knee, most often laterally, and may be associated with extremely intense pain and swelling...

 --- pubic symphysis diastasis --- shoulder dislocation

--- electric injuries

--- burns, electric --- lightning injuries

--- extravasation of diagnostic and therapeutic materials

--- foreign bodies

--- bezoars --- eye foreign bodies --- foreign-body migration --- foreign-body reaction --- granuloma, foreign-body

--- fractures, bone

--- femoral fractures --- hip fractures --- femoral neck fractures --- fractures, closed --- fractures, comminuted --- fractures, compression --- fractures, malunited --- fractures, open --- fractures, spontaneous --- fractures, stress --- fractures, ununited --- pseudarthrosis

Pseudarthrosis

Pseudarthrosis is the movement of a bone at the location of a fracture resulting from inadequate healing of the fracture.Pseudarthrosis can also result from a developmental failure.-Etymology:...

 --- hip fractures --- humeral fractures --- radius fractures --- colles' fracture

Colles' fracture

A Colles' fracture, also Colles fracture, is a fracture of the distal radius in the forearm with dorsal displacement of the wrist and hand. The fracture is sometimes referred to as a "dinner fork" or "bayonet" deformity due to the shape of the resultant forearm...

 --- rib fractures --- shoulder fractures --- skull fractures --- jaw fractures --- mandibular fractures --- maxillary fractures --- orbital fractures --- skull fracture, basilar --- skull fracture, depressed --- zygomatic fractures --- spinal fractures --- tibial fractures --- ulna fractures --- monteggia's fracture

--- heat stress disorders

--- heat exhaustion --- sunstroke --- heat stroke

--- hip injuries

--- hip dislocation --- hip fractures

--- leg injuries

--- ankle injuries --- femoral fractures --- hip fractures --- femoral neck fractures --- foot injuries --- knee injuries --- knee dislocation --- patellar dislocation

Patellar dislocation

Patellar dislocations occur with significant regularity, particular in young female athletes. It involves the patella sliding out of its position on the knee, most often laterally, and may be associated with extremely intense pain and swelling...

 --- tibial fractures

--- radiation injuries

--- abnormalities, radiation-induced --- leukemia, radiation-induced --- neoplasms, radiation-induced --- osteoradionecrosis --- radiation injuries, experimental --- radiation pneumonitis --- radiodermatitis

--- rupture

--- aortic rupture --- splenic rupture --- splenosis --- stomach rupture --- uterine rupture

Uterine rupture

Uterine rupture is a potentially catastrophic event during childbirth by which the integrity of the myometrial wall is breached. In an incomplete rupture the peritoneum is still intact. With a complete rupture the contents of the uterus may spill into the peritoneal cavity or the broad ligament...

 --- uterine perforation

Uterine perforation

Uterine perforation is a potential complication of any intrauterine procedure. It may be associated with injury to surrounding blood vessels or viscera such as the bladder or intestine. If not diagnosed at the time of the procedure it can result in massive hemorrhage or sepsis...

--- spinal cord injuries

--- central cord syndrome

Central cord syndrome

Central cord syndrome is an acute cervical spinal cord injury that can affect a large and diverse group of patients. It was first described by Schneider in 1954....

 --- spinal cord compression

Spinal cord compression

Spinal cord compression develops when the spinal cord is compressed by bone fragments from a vertebral fracture, a tumor, abscess, ruptured intervertebral disc or other lesion...

--- sprains and strains

--- cumulative trauma disorders --- carpal tunnel syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is an entrapment idiopathic median neuropathy, causing paresthesia, pain, and other symptoms in the distribution of the median nerve due to its compression at the wrist in the carpal tunnel. The pathophysiology is not completely understood but can be considered compression...

 --- ulnar nerve compression syndromes --- cubital tunnel syndrome

--- thoracic injuries

--- flail chest

Flail chest

A flail chest is a life-threatening medical condition that occurs when a segment of the rib cage breaks under extreme stress and becomes detached from the rest of the chest wall. It occurs when multiple adjacent ribs are broken in multiple places, separating a segment, so a part of the chest wall...

 --- heart injuries --- rib fractures

--- tooth injuries

--- tooth avulsion --- tooth fractures --- cracked tooth syndrome

Cracked tooth syndrome

Cracked tooth syndrome is a medical condition in which a partial crack extends through the dentin, and occasionally through the pulp of a tooth.-Classification:...

--- trauma, nervous system

--- cerebrovascular trauma --- carotid artery injuries --- carotid artery, internal, dissection --- carotid-cavernous sinus fistula --- vertebral artery dissection

Vertebral artery dissection

Vertebral artery dissection is a dissection of the inner lining of the vertebral artery, which is located in the neck and supplies blood to the brain. After the tear, blood enters the arterial wall and forms a blood clot, thickening the artery wall and often impeding blood flow...

 --- craniocerebral trauma --- brain injuries --- brain concussion --- post-concussion syndrome

Post-concussion syndrome

Post-concussion syndrome, also known as postconcussive syndrome or PCS, and historically called shell shock, is a set of symptoms that a person may experience for weeks, months, or occasionally up to a year or more after a concussion – a mild form of traumatic brain injury . PCS may also...

 --- brain hemorrhage, traumatic --- brain stem hemorrhage, traumatic --- cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic --- brain injury, chronic --- diffuse axonal injury

Diffuse axonal injury

Diffuse axonal injury is one of the most common and devastating types of traumatic brain injury, meaning that damage occurs over a more widespread area than in focal brain injury. DAI, which refers to extensive lesions in white matter tracts, is one of the major causes of unconsciousness and...

 --- epilepsy, post-traumatic --- pneumocephalus

Pneumocephalus

Pneumocephalus is the presence of air or gas within the cranial cavity. It is usually associated with disruption of the skull: after head and facial trauma, tumors of the skull base, after neurosurgery or otorhinolaryngology, and rarely, spontaneously...

 --- shaken baby syndrome

Shaken baby syndrome

Shaken baby syndrome is a triad of medical symptoms: subdural hematoma, retinal hemorrhage, and brain swelling from which doctors, consistent with current medical understanding, infer child abuse caused by intentional shaking...

 --- cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea --- cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea --- coma, post-head injury --- cranial nerve injuries --- abducens nerve injury --- facial nerve injuries --- optic nerve injuries --- head injuries, closed --- head injuries, penetrating --- intracranial hemorrhage, traumatic --- brain hemorrhage, traumatic --- brain stem hemorrhage, traumatic --- cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic --- hematoma, epidural, cranial --- hematoma, subdural --- hematoma, subdural, acute --- hematoma, subdural, chronic --- hematoma, subdural, intracranial --- subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic --- skull fractures --- skull fracture, basilar --- skull fracture, depressed

--- tympanic membrane perforation

--- wounds, nonpenetrating

--- brain concussion --- post-concussion syndrome

Post-concussion syndrome

Post-concussion syndrome, also known as postconcussive syndrome or PCS, and historically called shell shock, is a set of symptoms that a person may experience for weeks, months, or occasionally up to a year or more after a concussion – a mild form of traumatic brain injury . PCS may also...

 --- contusions --- head injuries, closed --- brain concussion --- post-concussion syndrome

Post-concussion syndrome

Post-concussion syndrome, also known as postconcussive syndrome or PCS, and historically called shell shock, is a set of symptoms that a person may experience for weeks, months, or occasionally up to a year or more after a concussion – a mild form of traumatic brain injury . PCS may also...

--- wounds, penetrating

--- decapitation

Decapitation

Decapitation is the separation of the head from the body. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine...

 --- eye injuries, penetrating --- head injuries, penetrating --- wounds, gunshot --- wounds, stab --- needlestick injuries