| 1. | Fabrys disease | a sex-linked disorder of glycolipid metabolism marked by progressive symptoms including fever, hypertension, and purple skin lesions, with death resulting from renal, cardiac, or More… 0.2 KB |
| 2. | Face bow | A caliperlike device used in dentistry to record the relationship of the jaws to the temporomandibular joints. |
| 3. | Face lift | Plastic surgery to remove facial wrinkles, sagging skin, fat deposits, or other visible signs of aging for cosmetic purposes. |
| 4. | Face presentation | Head presentation of the fetus during birth in which the face is the presentation part. |
| 5. | Facial bone | Any of the bones surrounding the mouth and nose and contributing to the eye sockets, including the upper jawbones, the zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, and platine bones, lower jawbone, and hyoid More… 0.2 KB |
| 6. | Facial muscle | Any of the numerous muscles that are supplied by the facial nerve and are attached to and move the skin. |
| 7. | Facial nerve | Either of a pair of nerves that originate in the tegmentum of the lower portion of the pons, emerge from the brain at the posterior border of the pons, leave the cranial cavity through the More… 0.4 KB |
| 8. | Fairbanks disease | or multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) is a rare genetic disorder (dominant form--1 in 10,000 births) which affects the growing ends of bones. Bones usually elongate by a process that More… 1.8 KB |
| 9. | Fallopian tube | The Fallopian tubes, named after Gabriel Fallopius (Gabriele Fallopio), also known as oviducts, uterine tubes, and salpinges (singular salpinx) are two very fine tubes lined with ciliated More… 0.9 KB |
| 10. | Familial Mediterranean fever | An autosomal recessive disorder in which patients suffer repeated febrile illnesses without evidence of infection. It occurs most often in people of Middle Eastern, Irish, or Italian More… 0.5 KB |
| 11. | Familial cutaneous papillomatosis | Familial cutaneous papillomatosis, also known as confluent and reticulated papillomatosis,[1] is a rare skin disease characterized by flat, scaly, wart-like lesions. The lesions are about More… 0.8 KB |
| 12. | Familial isolated vitamin E deficiency | Familial Isolated Vitamin E Deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease. Symptoms are similar to those of Friedreich ataxia. Familial Isolated Vitamin E Deficiency is More… 0.3 KB |
| 13. | Fanconi syndrome | Fanconi Syndrome (also called Fanconi's syndrome) is a disorder in which the proximal tubular function of the kidney is impaired, resulting in decreased reabsorption of electrolytes and More… 0.5 KB |
| 14. | Fear of the dark | The pathological fear of the dark is known as nyctophobia. The fear of the dark is a common fear among children and to a varying degree is observed for adults. Some researchers, More… 1.2 KB |
| 15. | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders | (FASD) describes a continuum of permanent birth defects caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, which includes, but is not limited to Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). More… 1.3 KB |
| 16. | Fetal alcohol syndrome | (FAS) is a disorder of permanent birth defects that occurs in the offspring of women who drink alcohol during pregnancy. It is unknown whether amount, frequency or timing of alcohol More… 1.8 KB |
| 17. | Fetus | A fetus (spelled foetus or fœtus in Commonwealth countries) is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate, after the embryonic stage and before birth. The plural is fetuses. In More… 1.4 KB |
| 18. | Fetus in fetu | (or fœtus in fœtu) is a developmental abnormality: a mass of tissue inside the body that more or less resembles a fetus. There are two theories of origin concerning fetus in fetu. One theory More… 1.4 KB |
| 19. | Fibrochondrogenesis | is a rare autosomal recessive form of osteochondrodysplasia, causing abnormal fibrous development of cartilage and related tissues. It is a lethal rhizomelic (malformations which result in More… 0.6 KB |
| 20. | Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva | Children born with Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva characteristically have deformed big toes, possibly missing a joint or simply presenting with a notable lump at the minor joint. The More… 1.5 KB |
