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 Autonomic Nervous System
Diseases
A part of the vertebrate nervous system that innervates smooth and cardiac muscle and glandular tissues and governs involuntary actions (as secretion and peristalsis) and that consists of the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
A part of the vertebrate nervous system that innervates smooth and cardiac muscle and glandular tissues and governs involuntary actions (as secretion and peristalsis) and that consists of the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
Diseases of, relating to, or caused by bacteria. Infection with or disease caused by a fungus.
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Cardiovascular Diseases
Diseases Of, relating to, or involving the heart and blood vessels.
Central Nervous System Diseases
The part of the nervous system which in vertebrates consists of the brain and spinal cord, to which sensory impulses are transmitted and from which motor impulses pass out, and which coordinates the activity of the entire nervous system--compare autonomic nervous system.
Cranial Nerve Diseases
Any of the nerves that arise in pairs from the lower surface of the brain one on each side and pass through openings in the skull to the periphery of the body and that comprise 12 pairs in reptiles, birds, and mammals and usu.10 in fishes and amphibians.
Demyelinating Diseases
A soft white somewhat fatty material that forms a thick myelin sheath about the protoplasmic core of a myelinated nerve fiber causing or characterized by the loss or destruction of myelin.
Digestive System Diseases
Disorders of Environmental Origin
Eye Diseases
Endocrine Diseases
A gland (as the thyroid or the pituitary) that produces an
endocrine secretion--called also ductless Gland.
Female Genital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications
Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases
Diseases of, relating to, or produced by the blood or the circulation of blood. Lacking physical or mental energy. (of, relating to, or produced
by lymph, lymphoid tissue, or lymphocytes: conveying lymph: lacking physical or mental energy: sluggish)
Immunologic Diseases
Mental Disorders
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Diseases
of, relating to, or involving both musculature and skeleton.
Neoplasms
A
new growth of tissue serving no physiological function: tumor.
Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Diseases of, relating to, or affecting the newborn and esp. the human infant during the first month after birth.
Nervous System Malformations
Neurologic Manifestations
The scientific study of the nervous system esp. in respect
to its structure, functions, and abnormalities.
Neuromuscular Diseases
Diseases
of or relating to nerves and muscles; esp: jointly involving nervous and muscular elements.
Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
The act or process of nourishing or being nourished: the sum of the processes by which an animal
or plant takes in and utilizes food substances.
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
The study of diseases of the ear, nose, and throat.
Parasitic Diseases
1: A person who exploits the hospitality of the rich and earns welcome by flattery.
2: An organism living in, with, or on another organism in parasitism.
3: Something that resembles a biological parasite in dependence on something else for existence or support without making a useful or adequate return.
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
Respiratory Tract Diseases
A
system of organs sub serving the function of respiration and in air-breathing vertebrates consisting typically of the lungs and their nervous and circulatory supply and the channels by which these are continuous with the outer air.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Therapeutics
A branch of medical science dealing with the application of remedies to diseases.
Urologic and Male Genital Diseases
Virus Diseases Medical and Alternative Medical Terminology, Explanations - by
Courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica®
2001
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