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Mild disease
* can remain quite stable for long periods of time.
* is treated by stopping the patient eating and drinking in the mormal way.

Milk intolerance
* Milk Intolerance includes lactose intolerance, and milk protein allergy.
* is very rare in infants who take only breastmilk.

Mitochondrial disease
* Many mitochondrial diseases result in the accumulation of organic acids in the body.
* are very variable in their features so called clinical heterogeneity.
* can affect any organ in the body and at any age
  - also mask itself to look like a spinocerebellar ataxia
  - pass to a progeny only through mothers in human beings
  - sometimes increase the risk of a stroke
* compromise their lives and can be fatal.
* is incurable and there are few treatments.

Monogenic disease
* are responsible for a heavy loss of life.
* result from modifications in a single gene occurring in all cells of the body.

Navicular disease
* is one of the most common cause of front limb lameness.
* seems to have been lumped together with general heel lameness.

Neurodegenerative disease
* Many neurodegenerative diseases show unusual protein aggregates.
* occur when a significant proportion of neurons die.
* pose an increasing challenge to public health as the population ages.
* very slow process, hard to evaluate.

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Neurofibromatosis
* appears in two forms.
* are diseases.
* can occur in both sexes and in all races and ethnic groups.
* casuses tumors to groww on nerve nedings anywhere in the body.
* condition in humans which is generally inherited in a dominant fashion.
* consists of at least two distinct autosomal dominant hereditary disorders.
* genetic disorder that causes people to develop tumors of the nervous system
  - involves multiple systems in the body
  - which causes tumors on nerves throughout the body
* is an autosom dominant disease
  - autosomal dominant disorder
* is one of the most common autosomal dominant disorders in humans
  - genetic conditions of the nervous system
* multi-organ disease.
* quite common disorder.

Neurologic disease
* Many neurologic diseases occur as a result of a lesion at a single anatomic site.
* can occur before or after the acute infection.

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Nicotine addiction
* affects people of all ages.
* begins when most tobacco users are teenagers.
* can be monumentally difficult to overcome
  - tough to overcome
  - lead to an artificially increased heart rate and blood pressure
* claims far more lives worldwide than any other form of drug use.
* creates a built-in incentive to buy more tobacco products.
* has powerful negative effects on the smoker's health.
* is drug addiction
  - habituation
  - hard to overcome
* is the biggest reason people find themselves unable to quit smoking
  - single most preventable cause of death and illness in our society
  - underlying cause for smokers' difficulty or inability to quit
  - very powerful, and is hard to fight off
* makes it difficult for tobacco users to quit smoking.
* occurs because of a rapid dopamine release in the brain.
* pediatric disease.
* seems to be retriggered quickly in most former smokers.
* takes a terrible toll on American health
  - time to develop

Notifiable disease
* Notifiable Diseases See Infectious Diseases.
* require doctors to report cases of infection on the state and local level.

Numerous disease
* affect skeletal muscles.
* are due to enzymatic malfunctions
  - prevalent in potatoes, and have a considerable effect on potato production
* involve aberrant immune and inflammatory responses.
* occur, affecting the leaves for use as straw for feeding animals.

Ocular disease
* Some ocular diseases associate with exposure
  - solar exposure
* byproduct of lid, conjunctival, and ocular surface deficits.