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Claudication, intermittent
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Claudication, intermittentAn aching, crampy, tired, and sometimes burning pain in the legs that comes and goes -- it typically occurs with walking and goes away with rest -- due to poor circulation of blood in the arteries of the legs. In very severe claudication the pain is also felt ar rest. Intermittent claudication may occur in one or both legs and often continues to worsen over time. However, some people complain only of weakness in the legs when walking or a feeling of "tiredness" in the buttocks. Impotence is an occasional complaint in men.
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Pain
An unpleasant sensory or emotional experience primarily associated with tissue damage, or described in terms of tissue damage, or both.
Circulation
The flow of blood through the body. Includes the heart, arteries, veins and capillaries.
Blood
The life-maintaining fluid which is made up of plasma, red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets; blood circulates through the body's heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries; it carries away waste matter and carbon dioxide, and brings nourishment, electrolytes, hormones, vitamins, antibodies, heat, and oxygen to the tissues.
Arteries
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the arms, legs, head, body and organs.
Claudication
Pain or fatigue in arms and legs due to poor supply of oxygen to the muscles.
Impotence
An abnormal physical or psychological state in a male characterized by inability to copulate because of failure to have or maintain an erection.
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Claudication
Pain or fatigue in arms and legs due to poor supply of oxygen to the muscles.
Claudication, venous
Limping and/or pain due to inadequate venous drainage, poor return of blood by the veins of the legs.
Claustrophobia
Fear of closed spaces.
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CLA
1. Conjugated linoleic acid. 2. Cervical lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes in the neck). 3. Congenital lactic acidosis. 4. Caseous lymphadenitis (cheeselike lymph nodes, usually due to TB).
Clade
Related organisms descended from a common ancestor.
Clap
Gonorrhea, a bacterial infection transmitted by sexual contact. Gonorrhea is one of the oldest known sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In women infected with this bacteria (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), 25-40% will also be infected with another bacteria that can cause another STD called chlamydia. Gonorrhea is NOT transmitted from toilet seats. More than half of women infected with gonorrhea do not have any symptoms. If symptoms occur, they may include burning or frequent urination, yellowish vaginal discharge, redness and swelling of the genitals, and a burning or itching of the vaginal area. Untreated, gonorrhea can lead to severe pelvic infections.
Clark level of invasion
A method for determining the prognosis (outlook) with melanoma. The method was devised by the pathologist Wallace Clark and measures the depth of penetration of a melanoma into the skin according to anatomic layer.
Clasped thumbs and mental retardation
A syndrome with the following characteristic features: (1) neurologically: mental retardation and aphasia (lack of speech); (2) limbs: adducted (clasped) thumbs, absent extensor pollicis longus and/or brevis muscles to the thumb, shuffling gait, and leg spasticity; (3) growth: small body size; (4) skeleton: lumbar lordosis (sway back). The syndrome is inherited as an X-linked trait and so affects mainly boys. Alternative names include MASA syndrome (MASA stands for mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs), adducted thumb with mental retardation, congenital clasped thumb with mental retardation, and the Gareis-Mason syndrome.
Claudication, intermittent
Claudication, venous
Limping and/or pain due to inadequate venous drainage, poor return of blood by the veins of the legs.
Cleft palate
An opening in the roof of the mouth (the palate) due to a failure of the palatal shelves to come fully together from either side of the mouth and fuse, as they normally should, during embryonic development.
Cleft palate prosthesis
A prosthetic device designed to close the opening left by a cleft in the palate and thereby to improve feeding and speech.
Cleft uvula
The uvula, the little V-shaped fleshy mass hanging from the back of the soft palate, is cleft. . Cleft uvula is a common minor anomaly occurring in about 1% of whites and 10% of Native Americans. Persons with a cleft uvula should not have their adenoids removed because, without the adenoids, they cannot achieve proper closure between the soft palate and pharynx while speaking and develop hypernasal speech. Also called bifid uvula.
Cleidocranial dysostosis
A genetic (inherited) disorder of bone development characterized by: Absent or incompletely formed collar bones (the "cleido-" part refers to the clavicles, the collar bones) The child with this disorder can bring its shoulders together or nearly so; and Typical cranial and facial abnormalities with square skull, late closure of the sutures of the skull, late closure of the fontanels (the soft spots), low nasal bridge, delayed eruption of the teeth, abnormal permanent teeth, etc.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Pain
An unpleasant sensory or emotional experience primarily associated with tissue damage, or described in terms of tissue damage, or both.
Circulation
The flow of blood through the body. Includes the heart, arteries, veins and capillaries.
Blood
The life-maintaining fluid which is made up of plasma, red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets; blood circulates through the body's heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries; it carries away waste matter and carbon dioxide, and brings nourishment, electrolytes, hormones, vitamins, antibodies, heat, and oxygen to the tissues.
Arteries
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the arms, legs, head, body and organs.
Claudication
Pain or fatigue in arms and legs due to poor supply of oxygen to the muscles.
Impotence
An abnormal physical or psychological state in a male characterized by inability to copulate because of failure to have or maintain an erection.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Claudication
Pain or fatigue in arms and legs due to poor supply of oxygen to the muscles.
Claudication, venous
Limping and/or pain due to inadequate venous drainage, poor return of blood by the veins of the legs.
Claustrophobia
Fear of closed spaces.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
CLA
1. Conjugated linoleic acid. 2. Cervical lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes in the neck). 3. Congenital lactic acidosis. 4. Caseous lymphadenitis (cheeselike lymph nodes, usually due to TB).
Clade
Related organisms descended from a common ancestor.
Clap
Gonorrhea, a bacterial infection transmitted by sexual contact. Gonorrhea is one of the oldest known sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In women infected with this bacteria (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), 25-40% will also be infected with another bacteria that can cause another STD called chlamydia. Gonorrhea is NOT transmitted from toilet seats. More than half of women infected with gonorrhea do not have any symptoms. If symptoms occur, they may include burning or frequent urination, yellowish vaginal discharge, redness and swelling of the genitals, and a burning or itching of the vaginal area. Untreated, gonorrhea can lead to severe pelvic infections.
Clark level of invasion
A method for determining the prognosis (outlook) with melanoma. The method was devised by the pathologist Wallace Clark and measures the depth of penetration of a melanoma into the skin according to anatomic layer.
Clasped thumbs and mental retardation
A syndrome with the following characteristic features: (1) neurologically: mental retardation and aphasia (lack of speech); (2) limbs: adducted (clasped) thumbs, absent extensor pollicis longus and/or brevis muscles to the thumb, shuffling gait, and leg spasticity; (3) growth: small body size; (4) skeleton: lumbar lordosis (sway back). The syndrome is inherited as an X-linked trait and so affects mainly boys. Alternative names include MASA syndrome (MASA stands for mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs), adducted thumb with mental retardation, congenital clasped thumb with mental retardation, and the Gareis-Mason syndrome.
Claudication, intermittent
Claudication, venous
Limping and/or pain due to inadequate venous drainage, poor return of blood by the veins of the legs.
Cleft palate
An opening in the roof of the mouth (the palate) due to a failure of the palatal shelves to come fully together from either side of the mouth and fuse, as they normally should, during embryonic development.
Cleft palate prosthesis
A prosthetic device designed to close the opening left by a cleft in the palate and thereby to improve feeding and speech.
Cleft uvula
The uvula, the little V-shaped fleshy mass hanging from the back of the soft palate, is cleft. . Cleft uvula is a common minor anomaly occurring in about 1% of whites and 10% of Native Americans. Persons with a cleft uvula should not have their adenoids removed because, without the adenoids, they cannot achieve proper closure between the soft palate and pharynx while speaking and develop hypernasal speech. Also called bifid uvula.
Cleidocranial dysostosis
A genetic (inherited) disorder of bone development characterized by: Absent or incompletely formed collar bones (the "cleido-" part refers to the clavicles, the collar bones) The child with this disorder can bring its shoulders together or nearly so; and Typical cranial and facial abnormalities with square skull, late closure of the sutures of the skull, late closure of the fontanels (the soft spots), low nasal bridge, delayed eruption of the teeth, abnormal permanent teeth, etc.
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