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Sclerosis which affects the extremities. A skin disease thought to be a type of generalized scleroderma. It also has features of ‘Raynaud’s disease, with the hands, face, and feet being mainly affected. A scleroderma of the upper extremities, sometimes extending to the neck and face, that usually follows Raynaud’s disease.  

A condition in which the patient experiences sharp pains in the arms and numbness in the fingers after sleep. A disorder occurring predominantly in middle-aged women in which there is numbness and tingling of the fingers. The medical term for tingling sensations experienced in the fingers or toes is paresthesia.  

A condition in which a nail grows into the flesh.  

Referring to the acromion.  

A blue coloration of the extremities, i.e. the fingers, toes, ears and nose, which is due to poor circulation. Abnormal condition characterized by bluish discoloration and the hands, caused by spasm of the blood vessels brought about by exposure to cold, emotional stress, or other factors; also called Raynaud’s sign. Bluish-purple discoloration of the hands…

A drug which reduces the amount of histamine produced by the body. It is used in the treatment of rhinitis, urticaria and eczema.  

Physical damage caused by sound waves, e.g. hearing loss, disorientation, motion sickness or dizziness.  

A tumour in the sheath of the auditory nerve, causing deafness.  

The eighth cranial nerve which governs hearing and balance. The nerve that relays impulses for hearing and equilibrium. The segment of the vestibulocochlear nerve, also known as the eighth cranial nerve, that is responsible for hearing is referred to as the acoustic nerve. It is alternatively called the auditory or cochlear nerve.  

A tiny sac which forms part of a gland. Part of a lobule in the lung. Acini, general term for a small saclike structure, esp. that found in a gland, acinar, acinic, acinose, acinous. Each of the minute sacs of which secreting glands are composed, and which usually cluster around the branches of the gland-duct,…