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Insect sting allergy

Mosquito allergy may result in a collection of symptoms called Skeeter Syndrome that occur after a bite.

Syndrome

Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037), in The Canon of Medicine, pioneered the idea of a syndrome in the diagnosis of specific diseases.


22q13 deletion syndrome

There is a great deal of interest in one of the gene that is usually deleted in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, SHANK3 (also known as PROSAP2).

Aicardi–Goutières syndrome

Aicardi–Goutières syndrome (AGS) is a congenital immune-mediated neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the SAMHD1, TREX1, or Ribonuclease H2 (RNASEH2A, RNASEH2B, RNASEH2C) genes.

ALDH16A1

Mutations in the SPG21 (ACP33/maspardin) gene are associated with the mast syndrome, a type of spastic paraplegia.

Alström syndrome

Alström syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the gene ALMS1.

Antoine Marfan

The term "Marfan's syndrome" was first used by Henricus Jacobus Marie Weve (1888-1962) of Utrecht in 1931.

Asperger

Asperger syndrome, a neurobiological syndrome which affects social and communication skills

Hans Asperger (1906–1980), Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named

Axenfeld syndrome

Although most recognized for its correlation with the onset of glaucoma, the malformation is not limited to the eye, as Axenfeld syndrome when associated with the PITX2 genetic mutation usually presents congenital malformations of the face, teeth, and skeletal system.

Beractant

As an intratracheal suspension, it can be used for the prevention and treatment for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome.

Brain stem stroke syndrome

Jean-Dominique was instrumental in forming the Association du Locked-In Syndrome (ALIS) in France.

Brian Steel

Shortly after he was born, Steel was diagnosed with congenital fiber-type disproportion (also called short fiber syndrome).

Churg–Strauss syndrome

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the president of Nigeria from 2007–2010, reportedly suffered from Churg–Strauss syndrome and died in office of complications of the disease.

Colorado Ballet

Be Beautiful Be Yourself - Based on Boston Ballet’s “Adaptive Dance” program and supported by the Anna and John J. Sie Center for Down Syndrome at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, the Be Beautiful Be Yourself Dance program provides 10 weekly dance classes to ten 5-9 year-old-children with Down syndrome.

Curschmann

Hans Curschmann (1875–1950), German physician and neurologist remembered for Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome

Doe v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

John Doe was an employee for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority SEPTA who had contracted Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome HIV/AIDS.

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included DOA, Black Hole, Do Won Kyoung, Cinnamon, Crash, Jeremy, Black Syndrome, Lolita No.18, Sister's Barbershop, No Brain, Transfixion, Sinawe, Schizo, Gaia, Hammer and Niflheim

The line-up included Megadeth, BUCK-TICK, Cul-de-sac, Shin Joong Hyun, Yoon Do Hyun, Do Won Kyoung, Kim Kyung Ho, Lee Eun Mi, Crash, Crying Nut, Sinawe, Blackhole, Gigs, Black Syndrome, 3rd Line Butterfly, Rainysun, Bulldog Mansion, Diablo, No Brain, Pia, Jeremy, Frida Kahlo and Lazybone

Ernst Leberecht Wagner

With Heinrich Unverricht (1853–1912), the eponymous "Wagner-Unverricht syndrome" is named, which is a muscle disease related to polymyositis, characterized by chronic muscle inflammation that results in muscle weakness and skin rash.

Focal dermal hypoplasia

The differential diagnosis of focal dermal hypoplasia (Goltz) syndrome includes autosomal recessive Setleis syndrome due to TWIST2 gene mutations.

Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome

Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome is a funk album by Parliament, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music).

Gitelman syndrome

In contrast to patients with Gordon's syndrome, those suffering from Gitelman's syndrome are generally normotensive.

Hibernia

Another occurrence is in familial Hibernian fever or TRAPS (tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome), a periodic fever first described in 1982 in a family of Irish and Scottish descent, but found in all ethnic groups.

Horner's syndrome

In France and Italy, Claude Bernard is also eponymized with the condition ("Claude Bernard-Horner syndrome").

Lenz microphthalmia syndrome

Molecular genetic testing of BCOR (MCOPS2 locus), the only gene known to be associated with Lenz microphthalmia syndrome, is available on a clinical basis.

Mandy Sellars

In 2013, Sellars' case was again profiled on British television in a special called Shrinking My 17 Stone Legs, in which it was determined that Sellars' condition was not, in fact, Proteus syndrome, but rather a PIK3CA gene mutation.

Mark Elliot

Marc Elliot (born 1986), advocate for people with Tourette Syndrome

Milnacipran

Triptans - there have been rare postmarketing reports of hyperserotonergia (serotonin syndrome).

Overactive disorder associated with mental retardation and stereotyped movements

The extent to which the behavioural pattern is a function of low IQ or of organic brain damage is not known, neither is it clear whether the disorders in children with mild intellectual disability who show the hyperkinetic syndrome would be better classified here or under F90.- (Hyperkinetic disorders); at present they are included in F90-.

Ovulation induction

Recombinant HCG (rHCG), recombinant luteinizing hormone (rLH) and urine-derived hCG (uHCG) are equally effective in achieving final follicular maturation in IVF with regards to pregnancy rates and risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a virus that causes a disease of pigs, called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), also known as blue-ear pig disease (in Chinese, zhū láněr bìng 豬藍耳病).

Queen bee syndrome

A popular example of a movie based on girls with Queen Bee Syndrome is the 2004 film, Mean Girls.

Rockerville, South Dakota

This severe local economic damage today is sometimes referred to in South Dakota as "Rockerville Syndrome" and has had a significant bearing in construction of new bypasses and highway improvements as recently as 1998 and 2001, in and around such small towns as Hill City and Corson.

Sangamon River

Many times the city was forced to warn people not to allow babies to consume water in Decatur because of "blue baby syndrome", Methemoglobinemia.

Seattle Syndrome Volume One

Music historian Stephen Tow regards the first volume of "Seattle Syndrome" as "a critical yardstick in the history of underground Seattle music", ranking in with other influential compilations like "Deep Six" (released in 1986 on C/Z Records) or "Sub Pop 200" (released in 1988 on Sub Pop Records).

Shwachman–Diamond syndrome

In 2003 mutations in the SBDS gene (Shwachman–Bodian–Diamond syndrome) were found to be associated with disease.

Sjögren's syndrome

In 2008, mucosal administration of α-fodrin, an autoantigen in Sjögren's syndrome, was shown to inhibit the progression of the disorder in mice effectively.

Spring Fever

Spring fever, a syndrome of symptoms occurring during the spring season

Stendhal syndrome

Although there are many descriptions of people becoming dizzy and fainting while taking in Florentine art, especially at the Uffizi, dating from the early 19th century on, the syndrome was only named in 1979, when it was described by Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, who observed and described more than 100 similar cases among tourists and visitors in Florence.

Sundown Syndrome

The title "Sundown Syndrome" refers to a psychological phenomenon called Sundowning.

Tetra-amelia syndrome

Researchers have found a mutation in the WNT3 gene in people with tetra-amelia syndrome from one large family.

Toxic shock syndrome

Lana Coc-Kroft, fully recovered, contracted the syndrome due to Group A streptococcal infection.

Triac

Tiratricol, a common thyroid hormone analogue used for treating thyroid hormone resistance syndrome

Trudie Chalder

"The prevalence and morbidity of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: a prospective primary care study." American Journal of Public Health 87, no. 9 (1997): 1449–1455.

True-believer syndrome

True-believer syndrome is an informal or rhetorical term used by M. Lamar Keene in his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia.

Virchow–Robin space

CADASIL syndrome (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy syndrome) is a hereditary stroke condition due to a Notch 3 gene mutation on Chromosome 19.

WAGR syndrome

WAGR syndrome is a rare genetic syndrome in which affected children are predisposed to develop Wilms tumour (a tumour of the kidneys), Aniridia (absence of the coloured part of the eye, the iris), Genitourinary anomalies, and Retardation.

Warkany syndrome

Warkany syndrome 1, an X-linked syndrome linked to reduced head size and mental retardation that is no longer diagnosed

Wilson's temperature syndrome

The American Thyroid Association (ATA) describes Wilson's syndrome as at odds with established knowledge of thyroid function.

Workaholics

Bradley Murphy (Edward Barbanell) is Alice's foul-mouthed older brother who has Downs Syndrome.


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