- A congenital or degenerative opacity of the lens that leads to a gradual loss of vision.
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- Tingling sensation and decreased functioning in the wrist, hand, and fingers resulting from compression of the median nerve.
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- Any structural or functional abnormality of the ventricular myocardium that results in enlargement or ventricular dysfunction and is not attributable to pressure or volume overload or to segmental loss of muscle function secondary to ischemia. The three major classifications are dilated (congestive) cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and restrictive cardiomyopathy.
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- A cellular malignancy in which the affected cell displays unregulated growth and division and lack of differentiation as it invades adjacent tissues and proliferates. The altered cells, which form solid or diffuse tumors, are classified by the tissue from which they arise and are described according to a histogenetic system.
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- An acute or chronic inflammation of a bursa.
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