Medical

A genetic form of angioedema.

A substance that causes lack of feeling or awareness, dulling pain to permit surgery and other painful procedures.

The connection of normally separate parts. An anastomosis may be naturally occurring or it may be created during embryonic development, surgery, or trauma, or by pathological means.

A form of blood vessel inflammation that affects small capillaries in the skin and the kidneys.

The inability to feel pain.

A group of diseases that result from the abnormal deposition of a protein, called amyloid, in various tissues of the body.

An event that produces multiple copies of a gene or of any sequence of DNA. Gene amplification plays a role in cancer.

An inherited disorder characterized by a lack of the alpha-1 antitrypsin protease inhibitor. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency leads to damage of various organs, especially the lung and liver.

Patchy baldness that typically begins with rapid hair loss on discrete areas of the scalp and sometimes progresses to complete baldness and even loss of body hair.

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a syndrome caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with ensuing compromise of the body's immune system.