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  2. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Synesthesia. A person with synesthesia may associate certain letters and numbers with certain colors. Most synesthetes see characters just as others do (in whichever color actually displayed) but they may simultaneously perceive colors as associated with or evoked by each one. Synesthesia ( American English) or synaesthesia ( British English ...

  3. Pareidolia - Wikipedia

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    Pareidolia ( / ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər -/; [1] also US: / ˌpɛəraɪ -/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia .

  4. Narcissistic personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings.

  5. Breast hypertrophy - Wikipedia

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    When gigantomastia occurs in young women during puberty, the medical condition is known as juvenile macromastia or juvenile gigantomastia and sometimes as virginal breast hypertrophy or virginal mammary hypertrophy. Along with the excessive breast size, other symptoms include red, itchy lesions and pain in the breasts.

  6. Alice in Wonderland syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The perception a person can have due to micropsia, a potential symptom of dysmetropsia. From Lewis Carroll 's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland syndrome ( AIWS ), also known as Todd's syndrome or dysmetropsia, is a neurological disorder that distorts perception.

  7. Ectodermal dysplasia - Wikipedia

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    Medical genetics. Ectodermal dysplasia ( ED) is a group of genetic syndromes all deriving from abnormalities of the ectodermal structures. [1] : 570 More than 150 different syndromes have been identified. [2] Despite some of the syndromes having different genetic causes, the symptoms are sometimes very similar.

  8. Non-communicable disease - Wikipedia

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    A non-communicable disease ( NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another. NCDs include Parkinson's disease, autoimmune diseases, strokes, heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and others. NCDs may be chronic or acute.

  9. Noma (disease) - Wikipedia

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    Noma (also known as gangrenous stomatitis or cancrum oris) is a rapidly progressive and often fatal gangrenous infection of the mouth and face. Noma usually begins as an ulcer on gums and rapidly spreads into the jawbone, cheek, and soft tissues of the face. This is followed by death of the facial tissues and fatal sepsis.