Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (also known as CDD or lionitis) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive bone disorder that causes calcium to build up in the skull, disfiguring the facial features and reducing life expectancy. The calcium deposits decrease the size of cranial foramina, and can also decrease the hole in the cervical spinal canal. In the few cases recorded, most of the sufferers died in childhood. Among the medical signs are dacryocystitis, seizures, mental retardation, and paralysis, each of which is a complication resulting from the diminutive foramina. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dominance relationship. ... General Name, Symbol, Number calcium, Ca, 20 Chemical series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2, 4, s Appearance silvery white Standard atomic weight 40. ... For other uses of Skull, see Skull (disambiguation). ... World map of human life expectancy, 2005 Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average length of survival of a living thing. ... For other uses of Skull, see Skull (disambiguation). ... The following is a list of holes, or foramina, in the base of the skull and what goes through each of them. ... In medicine, a sign is a feature of disease as detected by the doctor during physical examination of a patient. ... Dacryocystitis is an infection of the nasolacrimal sac. ... This article is about epileptic seizures. ... Mental retardation is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills (milestones) during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual capacity as an adult. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Complication, in medicine, is a unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. ...

Peter Bogdanovich's 1985 film Mask drew public attention to the case of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, an American boy who died of the disorder in 1978. Peter Bogdanovich Serbian Cyrillic Петар Богдановић(born July 30, 1939) is a Serbian-American film director, writer and actor. ... // Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Adolph Caesar Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... Mask is a 1985 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Cher and Eric Stoltz. ... Roy L. Rocky Dennis (1961–1978) was an American boy afflicted with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare, disfiguring, sclerotic bone disorder. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

In the American medical television series comedy-drama Grey's Anatomy episode "Yesterday", a teenage boy is depicted with lionitis.[1] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the television series. ... This article contains episode summaries as well as directing and writing credits from Season 2 of the American medical drama television series Greys Anatomy. ...

External links

• Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia at OMIM
• Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia at orpha.net
• picture of Rocky Dennis