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A rare mental illness of childhood. Abnormalities of behavior may be the only sign at first but the condition progresses to psychotic manifestations, such as stereotypies and hallucinations, and ultimately to dementia. Nearly always a physical cause can be found. The illness progresses to severe incapacity or death.  

The narrow opening between the scala vestibuli and the scala tympani at the lip of the cochlea in the ear.  

A depression on both sides of the chest wall of a child between the pectoral muscles and the lower margin of the ribcage. It is caused by exaggerated suction of the diaphragm when breathing in and develops in conditions in which the airways are partially obstructed or when the lungs are abnormally congested due to…

A severe and itchy inflammation of the skin occurring in people continuously subjected to the bites of the sandfly Phlebotomus papatasii. The incidence of this allergic skin reaction, prevalent in the Middle East, may be checked by controlling the numbers of sandflies.  

Any hooklike process, such as occurs on the hamate, lacrimal, and sphenoid bones and on the cochlea.  

Colored rings seen around lights by people with acute congestive glaucoma and sometimes by people with cataract. A coloured circle seen around a bright light in some eye conditions. When accompanied by headache, it is especially likely to be caused by glaucoma.  

A genus of hard ticks. Certain species transmit tick typhus in the Old World; H. spinigera transmits the virus causing Kyasanur Forest disease in India. A genus of ticks that includes species that are vectors for tick-borne viral diseases including hemorrhagic fever.