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Encyclopedia > Paroxysm

Paroxysm can have several meanings.

For medical meanings see also Paroxysmal attacks Self-portrait of Joseph Ducreux shown laughing. ... Schematic of the relation between an immunoglobulin and RAGE Schematic of the RAGE gene and its products // Introduction RAGE the receptor for advanced glycation endproducts is a 35kD transmembrane receptor of the immunoglobulin super family which was first characterized in 1992 by Neeper et. ... This article is about the medical condition. ... A spasm is a sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ, or a similarly sudden contraction of an orifice. ... This article is about muscular pain. ... Look up Pain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The term symptom (from the Greek syn = con/plus and pipto = fall, together meaning co-exist) has two similar meanings in the context of physical and mental health: A symptom can be a physical condition which shows that one has a particular illness or disorder (see e. ... Red blood cell infected with Malaria, derived from mala aria (Medieval Italian for bad air) and formerly called ague or marsh fever in English, is an infectious disease which causes about 350-500 million infections with humans and approximately 1. ... Trigeminal neuralgia, or Tic Douloureux, is a neuropathic disorder of the trigeminal nerve that causes episodes of intense pain in the eyes, lips, nose, scalp, forehead, and jaw. ... Paroxysmal attacks are short, frequent and stereotyped symptoms that can be observed in various clinical conditions. ...


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  • Bronchial Asthma as Paroxysmal Disease Common mechanisms of asthma with other neurogenic paroxysmal diseases.

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Archaic Medical Terms English List M (2548 words)
The paroxysm is followed by a definite interval in which there is not only no fever, but even a fair degree of bodily comfort and fitness; this is the intermission of the fever.
Another paroxysm begins at or near the same hour next day (quotidian ague), which results from a double tertian infection, or the interval may be forty eight hours (tertian ague), or seventy-two hours (quartan ague).
Another rule is that the quartan has the longest cold stage, while its paroxysm is shortest as a whole; the quotidian has the shortest cold stage and a long hot stage, while its paroxysm is longest as a whole.
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