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| Inadequate blood supply (circulation) to a local area due to blockage of the blood vessels to the area. |
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| The death of living cells or tissues. Necrosis can be due, for example, to ischemia (lack of blood flow). From the Greek "nekros" (dead body). |
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| The process of forming an "infarct." An area of necrosis in a tissue or organ resulting from obstruction of the local ciculation by a thrombus (clot) or embolus |
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| An abnormal blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel and esp. an artery resulting from disease of the vessel wall |
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| The action or process of draining or losing blood |
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| The sudden obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus (an abnormal particle circulating in the blood) |
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| A disorder of connective tissue that is inherited as a simple dominant trait, is caused by a defect in the gene controlling the production of fibrillin and is characterized by abnormal elongation of the long bones and often by ocular and circulatory defects. |
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| Situation beneath cartilage |
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| A disease esp. of childhood and young animals in which an ossification center esp. in the epiphyses of long bones undergoes degeneration followed by calcification. |
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| A loose fragment (as of cartilage within a synovial space |
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| A fragment of dead bone detached from adjoining sound bone |
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| Scar formation at the site of a healing wound. |
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| Osteochondritis dissecans |
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| Separation of a portion of joint cartilage and of underlying bone, usu. involving the knee. |
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| Osteochondrosis of the vertebrae associated in the active state with pain and kyphosis |
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| Osgood-Schlatter's Disease |
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| An osteochondritis of the tuberosity of the tibia that occurs esp. among adolescent males |
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| Inflammation of the Epiphysis; A part or process of a bone that ossifies separately and later becomes ankylosed to the main part of the bone. esp: An end of a long bone. |
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| An expanded or projecting part esp. of an organism. |
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| The act of occluding or the state of being occluded: A shutting off or obstruction of something esp: A blocking of the central passage of one reflex by the passage of another. 2a: The bringing of the opposing surfaces of the teeth of the two jaws into contact: also: the relation between the surfaces when in contact b: the transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening <~of the eyelids> |
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