Glossary for Underweight

• Anorexia Nervosa: A disorder where a distorted sense of body image leads to self-starvation to the point of death in some cases.
• Arachnodactyly - Intellectual Deficit - Dysmorphism: A rare condition characterized by long thin digits, reduced intelligence characteristic facial appearance.
• Bamboo hair syndrome: A rare inherited condition characterized by abnormally formed hair shafts and a skin condition involving scaling and redness of the skin. Patients are also predisposed to developing allergic conditions such as asthma and eczema and food allergies. The severity of the condition can vary with some infants having a poor prognosis due to severe allergies, infections and skin problems whereas others have milder symptoms and fewer allergic manifestations.
• Blood vessel conditions: Conditions that affect the blood vessels
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Delusional belief about body shape or appearance
• Chronic infections: Ongoing and often slow progressing infection; opposite to acute infections.
• Cockayne syndrome: A rare genetic disorder characterized by a senile-like appearance, hearing and vision impairment and sun sensitive skin.
• Comel-Netherton Syndrome: A rare inherited condition characterized by abnormally formed hair shafts and a skin condition involving scaling and redness of the skin. Patients are also predisposed to developing allergic conditions such as asthma and eczema and food allergies. The severity of the condition can vary with some infants having a poor prognosis due to severe allergies, infections and skin problems whereas others have milder symptoms and fewer allergic manifestations.
• Die-Smulders-Vles-Fryns syndrome: A very rare disorder characterized by facial anomalies, long thin fingers and mental retardation.
• Difficulty chewing: difficulty chewing can result from pain in the mouth, stiffness or pain in the jaw muscles, or problems with the teeth
• Gigantism partial - nevi - hemihypertrophy - macrocephaly: A rare genetic disorder characterized by overgrowth of bones, fatty tissues and skin in various parts of the body.
• Heart disease: Any of various heart conditions.
• Kwashiorkor: A malnutrition state that is produced by severe protein deficiency
• Marshall-Smith Syndrome: A rare genetic disorder characterized by accelerated growth and maturation, shallow orbits and broad middle bones of fingers.
• Netherton syndrome ichthyosis: A rare inherited skin disorder characterized by scaly skin which forms in a circular pattern.
• Osteoporosis: Bone thinning and weakening from bone calcium depletion.
• Poor appetite: Loss or reduction in appetite for food
• Proteus Syndrome: A rare genetic disorder characterized by overgrowth of bones, fatty tissues and skin in various parts of the body.
• Shwachman syndrome: A rare disorder where a pancreatic defect impairs digestive enzyme production and malfunction of the bone marrow produces blood abnormalities, particularly blood cells involved with fighting infection. These defects produce a range of symptoms as a result of malabsorption and poor ability to fight infections. Characterized by a lack of digestive enzymes and low immunity due to low leukocyte level.
• Weight loss: Loss of body weight.

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