Glossary for Change in level of consciousness

Medical terms related to Change in level of consciousness or mentioned in this section include:

• Alcohol use: Use of alcohol (as a symptom)
• Altered mental state: A change in the normal mental state of a person.
• Altered vital signs: vital signs are measures of various physiological statistics often taken by health professionals in order to assess the most basic body functions,altered vital signs indicate an underlying abnormality
• Arrhythmias: The occurrence of irregular heart beats
• Brain cancer: Cancer of the brain.
• Brain symptoms: Symptoms affecting the brain
• Carotid artery stenosis:
• Cerebral hemorrhage: Bleeding in the brain
• Confusion leading to stupor: altered level of consciousness
• Decreased LOC: measurement of a person's arousability and responsiveness to stimuli from the environment
• Decreased level of consciousness: A persistent coma is called vegetative state.
• Dehydration: Loss and reduction in body water levels
• Diabetic ketoacidosis: A metabolic acidosis that results from the accumulation of ketones when diabetes mellitus is poorly controlled
• Eclampsia: serious complication of pregnancy and is characterised by high blood pressure and convulsions
• Encephalitis: Infection of the brain (as a symptom)
• Extradural hematoma: Bleeding in the skull outside the brain
• Head injury: Any injury that occurs to the head
• Heart attack: An acute myocardial infarction
• Hepatic encephalopathy: Caused by marked liver disease that results in disturbances of consciousness
• Heroin overdose: Heroin is an illegal and highly addictive recreational drug. Excessive doses of the drug can result in various symptoms and even death in severe cases.
• Hydrocephalus: A condition which is characterized by marked dilatation of the cerebral ventricles
• Hypoglycemia: Low blood sugar levels
• Hypothermia: Low body temperature
• Hypovolemia: a state of decreased blood volume; more specifically, decrease in volume of blood plasma
• Hysteria: hysteria describes a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses
• Internal bleeding: The loss of blood internally from the circulation
• Level of consciousness symptoms: Symptoms related to consciousness such as coma or loss of consciousness.
• Meningitis: Infection of the membrane around the brain (as a symptom)
• Neurological deterioration: decreased mental acuity
• Porphyria: A group of disorders characterized by excess production of porphyrin or its precursors which affects the skin and/or nervous system.
• Pulmonary embolism: The occurrence of an embolism which blocks blood vessels in the lungs
• Reye's syndrome: is a potentially fatal disease that causes numerous detrimental effects to many organs, especially the brain and liver
• Sepsis: The presence of microorganisms in the blood circulation
• Shock: Physical and mental reaction to reduced circulation
• Snake bite: When a person is bitten by a snake
• Spider Bites: A puncture wound caused by a spider that may involve the release of noxious substances or bacteria.
• Stroke symptoms: Brain-related symptoms of bleeding or blockage.
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage: subarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin tissues that cover the brain. This area is called the subarachnoid space
• Subdural hematoma: A condition which is characterized by a blood clot beneath the dura mater
• Typhoid fever: Fever from bacterial food poisoning.
• Vasovagal attack: Cranial nerve disorder with various effects.
• Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome: The malignant form of cerebrospinal meningitis
• Wernicke's encephalopathy: Brain condition with various effects

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Change in level of consciousness:

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