Diseases Trivia

1. Mrs. Silva's cousin has been diagnosed with Paget's disease. What part of his body is affected?

From Quiz What's going on with the Silva family?

Answer: Bones

Paget's disease can affect any bone or multiple bones in the body, never affecting the entire skeleton. Although we think of bones as an inert part of the body, they are in reality living tissue, which is constantly being renewed. Bones are always in a process of renewal where the new tissue gradually replaces the old one, in an orderly and balanced way, always keeping them healthy and firm. In the case of Paget's disease, the bones' renewal process is disrupted and can be much more accelerated than normal, leading to the creation of fragile bones subject to deformities and fractures. The disease is often called Paget's disease of bone to distinguish it from other ailments named for James Paget, a pathologist and surgeon of the nineteenth century.

From Quiz Don't Touch This

Answer: Impetigo

Impetigo is a bacterial infection that involves the superficial skin layers, but occasionally itchy skin blisters can present in the groin or armpits.The most commonly seen clinical picture is yellowish crusts on the face (especially around the mouth), arms, or legs. The causative agents are usually Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes. As the disease is mild and only affects the skin, treatment is with topical antibiotic creams, while occasionally oral antibiotics are prescribed.

From Quiz Paging Dr. Acula

Answer: Thyroid

Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease that results in an overactive and enlarged thyroid gland, often accompanied by bulging eyes (exophthalmos) and thickening of the skin on the shins (pretibial myxoedema). It is named after the Irish physician Robert James Graves, who described it in 1835.

From Quiz Big Names/Mild Maladies

Answer: alopecia

Alopecia is another way of saying baldness or hair loss. However, the condition known as 'alopecia areata' is an autoimmune disease when the immune system mistakenly attacks hair follicles causing clumps of hair to fall out with smooth patches remaining. Why the immune system attacks the follicles is unknown, but it is not usually permanent. It is most common in people under twenty, but children or adults of any age can be affected and, unlike alopecia, women and men seem to be affected equally. Examples of people who have or have had this condition include Christopher Reeve and Neve Campbell.

From Quiz Eek! The Dreaded E!

Answer: long term regular tobacco smoking

Emphysema is a medical condition in which the alveoli fill up with air causing them to become damaged. Scar tissue may also be formed. Soon the alveoli transform into large irregular pockets with holes in them. The size of the lung is gradually reduced preventing enough oxygen from entering the bloodstream. Exhaling air becomes a problem when the small elastic fibres that open the airways which lead to the alveoli are destroyed. Regular long term tobacco smoking is the most common cause of this disease. Other causes are marijuana smoking or air pollution, such as factory fumes. This condition cannot be cured but treatment can lessen the symptoms and slow down the rate of progression. Complications of emphysema are pulmonary hypertension, collapsed lung, expansion and weakening of the heart and recurring infections. In some severe cases, where all other options fail, a lung transplant may be recommended.

From Quiz What Hyper are you?

Answer: Hypertension

120/80 mm Hg is the average blood pressure. The medical term for high blood pressure is hypertension. It is also called arterial hypertension. A value of 140/90 mm Hg or above indicates hypertension.

From Quiz Basic Pathology

Answer: proximal convoluted tubule

ATP is the primary energy currency of all cells. During hypoxic injury to the kidney, the tissue that requires the most ATP to function is most affected. In this case, the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) requires much ATP because it secretes sodium into the lumen of the tubule by making use of the Na+/K+-ATPase pump. Since sodium is not pumped out of the lumen and stays inside the cells of the PCT, water tends to go in and swells up the cells of the PCT. What results is called cellular swelling or vacuolar degeneration of the PCT cells. This pathologic process is reversible.

From Quiz On the Way Out

Answer: Leprosy

The disease has been known since Biblical times, and is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterum leprae. The bacterium causes muscle weakness, skin sores and nerve damage, and can be very disfiguring. The disease is not particularly contagious, and the old idea of 'leper colonies' to isolate patients has passed into history. Early treatment with antibiotics is effective, although there are still problems in some countries where the stigma of leprosy remains.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Secret

Answer: Hemophilia

Hemophilia, or haemophilia, is a genetic blood clotting disorder that usually meant an early death for most of those affected. This is a sex-linked X- chromosome disorder that usually manifests in males. The disorder can be inherited through either parent. For a female to manifest the disease she will have had to inherited the disease from both parents. It is possible that females may have had the disease more often than thought but most would have bled to death upon having their first period. Through her nine children Victoria spread this disease to the royal houses of Spain, Russia and Germany. She, herself, is believed to have carried the trait because of a spontaneous genetic mutation as there was no sign of the disease in her ancestors. The disease became so prevalent in European royalty that it became known as "the kings' disease", "the royal disease" and "Victoria's secret". There are three types of the disease known as A,B, and C. This hereditary disorder impairs the bloods natural ability to clot, varies in severity and death is usually caused by hemorrhage. Today the life expectancy of someone with this disease has risen to 50 years, with proper medication, transfusions, and gene therapy.

From Quiz Hit Me With Your Best 'Shot'

Answer: tetanus

Tetanus typically caused by deep puncture wounds, particularly those involving rusty items. The rust doesn't cause the tetanus but rather provides a safe place for the bacteria that are the culprits. Animals aren't immune either. General Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveller, died from tetanus after stepping on a nail.

From Quiz Disgusting Signs With Eponyms

Answer: Dance's sign

Dance's sign is considered a pathognomonic sign of intussusception (telescoping of one portion of intestine into another). Intussusception usually occurs for unknown reasons in infants younger than one year. The dance's sign cannot be palpated if the infant is crying because the abdominal muscles are tense. Mortality rate increases rapidly if not treated immediately within 24 hours after intussusception occurs. Intussusception is characterized by piercing cry, severe abdominal pain, vomiting of bile-stained fluid, bloody mucus in stool and currant-jelly stool.

From Quiz Name that Disease!

Answer: Alzheimer's disease

Alois Alzheimer was working in the Frankfurt Asylum in 1901 when he came across a woman by the name of Auguste Deter. The 51-year-old patient presented with unusual behavioral symptoms - she was disoriented, suffered from short-term memory loss and experienced difficulty reading and writing. These symptoms worsened over time, and eventually included a loss of higher mental functions and hallucinations. After the patient passed away, Alzheimer examined her brain, in which he observed neurofibrillar tangles as well as a thinning of the cerebral cortex. He presented his findings at a conference for German psychiatrists in 1906, and called the illness "a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex". It wasn't until 1910 that fellow psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin described the condition as a distinctive disease and proposed that it be named after Alzheimer. Some famous people who were afflicted with the illness include Ronald Reagan, Rita Hayworth, Charlton Heston and Terry Pratchett.

From Quiz Diseases A to Z

Answer: anhedonia

Anorexia, or loss of appetite, is also an indicator of depression. Apraxia usually occurs after a stroke, and relates to the inability to complete complex behaviors once done by second nature (e.g., buttoning a button). Anosmia is loss of the sense of smell.

From Quiz Bodily Inflammations

Answer: Osteitis

Osteitis is the inflammation of the bone and can occur in any of the 206 bones within the adult human body. Iritis and uveitis are inflamed parts of the eye and epididymitis is the inflammation of an area on the testicle.

From Quiz Disorders and Diseases of the Human Body

Answer: A localised dilation of a blood vessel

An aneurysm is usually caused by a weakening of the blood vessel wall. People may go their whole lives with an aneurysm and never know, while other aneurysms may rupture and require urgent medical treatment.

From Quiz Diseases : General

Answer: West Nile

Meningoencephalitis is the inflammation of the spinal cord and the brain. West Nile Fever is the only disease that is proven to cause meningoencephalitis. However, no cases of MEI have been reported in tuberculosis and influenza. Pyrenidite is a made up word. =)

From Quiz Let's Play Doctor...

Answer: Meningococcal meningitis

This is a classical history of bacterial meningitis caused by Neisseria meningiditis. Inflammation of the meninges, which are the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, cause fever, pain on stretching and photophobia. The organism can also cause septicaemia (blood poisoning) with a purpuric (bleeding) rash.

From Quiz Disease Miscellaneous [ 2 ]

Answer: Continuous seizure state

A continuous seizure state can occur in all seizure types and is ALWAYS an emergency. The most life threatening type is generalized tonic-clonic seizure without any return of consciousness.

From Quiz Disease Miscellaneous [ 1 ]

Answer: Tennis Elbow

It is one of several activity related joint disorders. It occurs when the forearm extensor tendon fibers become inflamed at their common attachment to the humeral epicondyle. It may produce acute or subacute pain. It probably starts as a partial tear and is common among tennis players or persons whose activities require a forceful grasp, wrist extension against resistance or frequent forearm rotation.

From Quiz Unusual Diseases

Answer: Newborns

Laryngolmalacia is a condition present in newborns in which the epiglottis partially obstructs the airway, resulting in noisy inspirational breathing. The affected baby will emit a high-pitched breathing sound known as stridor. Simply place said baby on his belly to make breathing easier. Most babies outgrow this condition by 18 months of age.

From Quiz Medical Conditions That Start With 'M'

Answer: Malaise

Generally a feeling of fatigue, body aches, and often no appetite.

From Quiz Rare Diseases

Answer: Respiratory tract

This is an allergic respiratory disease caused by working with moldy compost.

From Quiz Alphabetic Diseases A to O

Answer: Esophagus

This disease causes a loss of peristalsis of the smooth muscles of the esophagus and digestive tract. There is spasm of the sphincter between the esophagus and the stomach which prevents food getting into the upper digestive tract. Pain, vomiting and weight loss are common.

From Quiz What's going on with the Silva family?

Answer: His immune system had a disproportionate reaction to an infection, causing damage to his body

Cytokine is a type of protein that helps to coordinate the body's response to an infection. When an infection occurs, cytokine immediately activates immune cells. However, sometimes the cytokine's reaction to the infection causes a disproportionate number of immune cells to act, provoking serious harm or the death of the patients. In this case, a cytokine storm has occurred.

From Quiz The Human Body and its Problems

Answer: Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is spread by rats, but not directly. It is their parasitic fleas which infect human beings. It is a disease of the lymphatic system and causes swelling of the lymph glands and red spots which later turn black. It spreads very swiftly and, before antibiotics, 90% of sufferers died within ten days.

From Quiz A Visit to Dr. Trivia's Medical Office

Answer: They become unable to move.

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive occurs when a healing body is unable to stop healing itself and keeps growing new connective tissue and bone until there is no room for more. Once a bone breaks, new bone is produced until the body is basically turned into a giant bone. Within a few decades the patient is unable to move at all and new bone growth occurs until death. At one time, this was a common disorder seen at carnival freak shows.

From Quiz Big Names/Mild Maladies

Answer: bedwetting

Nocturnal enuresis is a scientific way of saying bedwetting or involuntary urination while asleep in a person old enough to have achieved bladder control. It is one of the most common pediatric complaints but, for the most part, is just a developmental delay rather than an emotional problem or physical illness. Nocturnal enuresis should not be treated by pressure, shaming or punishment. Michael Landon wrote an autobiographical made-for-TV film called "The Loneliest Runner" (1976) which deals with this issue.

From Quiz Eek! The Dreaded E!

Answer: lymphatic system

Elephantiasis is transmitted from one human to the other when the female mosquito feeds. The worm which causes the disease is called the filarial worm. After growing into an adult the worm lives in the lymphatic system. Another name for the disease is lymphatic filariasis. Elephantiasis causes the skin to thicken and the limbs become grossly enlarged and thickened.

From Quiz Basic Pathology

Answer: fibrosis and nodule formation

Liver cirrhosis is a chronic disease and the process takes a long time before symptoms can actually be felt by individuals. Since there was insult to the liver parenchyma (functional liver tissue) and hepatocytes (liver cells) died due to the insult, the liver heals itself by means of fibrosis and regeneration. Unfortunately, these processes can become pathologic. Fibrosis tends to limit the regeneration of the hepatocytes, forming spherical nodules that can be seen at the surface of the liver.

From Quiz On the Way Out

Answer: Consumption

The disease, which is caused by bacteria, especially attacks the lungs, and was the cause of nearly 25% of all deaths in Europe in the nineteenth century. The development of antibiotics, particularly streptomycin, led to a dramatic reduction. The introduction of a vaccine, the Bacillus Calmete-Guérin (BCG), in the twentieth century did much to reduce the incidence of the disease. Unfortunately, strains of the illness which are resistant to the usual range of antibiotics mean that the eradication of the disease remains elusive, although there are several ongoing programmes devoted to this aim. Falling sickness is a name for epilepsy, winter fever was pneumonia and tonsillitis was called quinsy.

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