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The earliest recorded case of CHILD syndrome was in 1903. Otto Sachs was accredited for first describing the clinical characteristics of the syndrome in an 8-year-old girl. The nearest proceeding news on the topic was a report in 1948 by Zellweger and Uelinger, who reported a patient with "half-sided osteochondrodermatitis and nevus ...
Diseases of neonates and children younger than five years. Gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. Candida albicans infection. Candida parapsilosis infection. Cytomegalovirus infection. diphtheria. human coronavirus infection. respiratory distress syndrome. measles.
Childhood disintegrative disorder, also known as Heller's syndrome and disintegrative psychosis, is a rare condition characterized by late onset of developmental delays in language, social function, and motor skills. Researchers have not been successful in finding a cause for the disorder. CDD has some similarity to autism, and is sometimes ...
Global developmental delay is an umbrella term used when children are significantly delayed in two or more areas of development. It can be diagnosed when a child is delayed in one or more milestones, categorised into motor skills, speech, cognitive skills, and social and emotional development. [1] There is usually a specific condition which ...
Psychology , Psychiatry. Factitious disorder imposed on self, also known as Munchausen syndrome, is a factitious disorder in which those affected feign or induce disease, illness, injury, abuse, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves. Munchausen syndrome fits within the subclass of factitious disorder ...
Mongolian idiocy. The obsolete medical terms Mongolian idiocy and Mongolism referred to a specific type of mental deficiency, associated with the genetic disorder now known as Down syndrome. The obsolete term for a person with this syndrome was Mongolian idiot . In the 21st century, these terms are no longer used as medical terminology, deemed ...
Mongoloid ( / ˈmɒŋ.ɡə.lɔɪd / [1]) is an obsolete racial grouping of various peoples indigenous to large parts of Asia, the Americas, and some regions in Europe and Oceania. The term is derived from a now-disproven theory of biological race. [2] In the past, other terms such as " Mongolian race", "yellow", "Asiatic" and "Oriental" have ...
Medical condition Down syndrome Other names Down's syndrome, Down's, trisomy 21 An eight-year-old boy displaying characteristic facial features of Down syndrome Specialty Medical genetics, pediatrics Symptoms Delayed development, characteristic physical features, mild to moderate intellectual disability Usual onset Mostly at conception, rarely after fertilization Duration Lifelong Causes Third ...