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Retinal hemorrhage (UK English: retinal haemorrhage) is a disorder of the eye in which bleeding occurs in the retina, the light sensitive tissue, located on the back wall of the eye. [ 1] There are photoreceptor cells in the retina called rods and cones, which transduce light energy into nerve signals that can be processed by the brain to form ...
Psychiatry, sleep medicine. Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder ( NSRED) is a combination of a parasomnia and an eating disorder. It is a non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) parasomnia. [1] It is described as being in a specific category within somnambulism or a state of sleepwalking that includes behaviors connected to a person's conscious ...
Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder ( ARFID) is a feeding or eating disorder in which individuals significantly limit the volume or variety of foods they consume, causing malnutrition, weight loss, and/or psychosocial problems. [ 1] Unlike eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia ...
Compared to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, in which a person’s primary motivation might be to change the look of their body, orthorexia typically starts with the goal to eat the ...
8.7% global prevalence in 2020 [ 2] Macular degeneration, also known as age-related macular degeneration ( AMD or ARMD ), is a medical condition which may result in blurred or no vision in the center of the visual field. [ 1] Early on there are often no symptoms. [ 1] Over time, however, some people experience a gradual worsening of vision that ...
August 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM. Doctors can stop severe bleeding ‘in seconds’ with newly approved trauma product. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a novel treatment that is ...
Intraventricular hemorrhage ( IVH ), also known as intraventricular bleeding, is a bleeding into the brain's ventricular system, where the cerebrospinal fluid is produced and circulates through towards the subarachnoid space. It can result from physical trauma or from hemorrhagic stroke . 30% of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) are primary ...
Pagophagia. Pagophagia (from Greek: pagos, frost/ice, + phagō, to eat [ 1]) is the compulsive consumption of ice or iced drinks. [ 2] It is a form of the disorder known as pica, which in Latin refers to a magpie that eats everything indiscriminately. [ 3] Pica's medical definition refers to the persistent consumption of nonnutritive substances ...