Category: Health
Created by: marija.horvat
Number of Blossarys: 21
Moebius Syndrome is a condition that causes facial paralysis. It forms at birth and is also thought to be some sort of genetic disorder. Existent in only 2 to 30 people out of every 1 million, ...
Often called "flesh eating bacteria" or "flesh eating disease", necrotizing fascitis is a rare infection of the deep layers of skin on a person's body. Actually, the term "flesh eating" is very ...
A parasitic twin is similar to a Siamese or conjoined twin, but with a major difference. The cause is the same in that the twins never fully separated. The difference is that a parasitic twin is ...
Pica is an eating disorder in about 25% of all children. It is a disorder where a child craves non-food items such as glue or paste, dirt, clay, laundry starch, cigarette butts, dirt, clay, laundry ...
Progeria s an extremely rare genetic condition that only happens in one out of every 8 million births. Often called the rapid aging disease, children with progeria have an average life span of only ...
This is a disease where there is unusual bone growth of the skin and head causing the individual with the disease to look deformed. The syndrome often precedes tumors all over the person's body. This ...
This disorder is where an individual has the urge to pull out his or her hair; not just on his or her head, but all hair! The person can have the urge to pull out scalp hair, facial hair, nose hair, ...