Glossary for Quadriceps muscle weakness

Medical terms related to Quadriceps muscle weakness or mentioned in this section include:

• Adrenal gland symptoms: Symptoms affecting the adrenal glands
• Anorexia Nervosa: A disorder where a distorted sense of body image leads to self-starvation to the point of death in some cases.
• Arm symptoms: Symptoms affecting the arm
• Arthritis: A condition which is characterized by the inflammation of a joint
• Astrocytoma: A malignant tumour of the nervous system composed of astrocytes.
• Brain symptoms: Symptoms affecting the brain
• Cancer: Abnormal overgrowth of body cells.
• Capillaria philippiensis infection: A fish borne parasite that can infect humans. Transmission most often occurs through ingestion of contaminated fish. Severity of symptoms tend to increase as the number of worms multiply in the intestines. Death can occur if the condition is left untreated.
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Hand or wrist problems; often from repetitive motion.
• Cocaine -- Teratogenic Agent: There is evidence to indicate that exposure to Cocaine during pregnancy may have a teratogenic effect on the fetus. A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects. The likelihood and severity of defects may be affected by the level of exposure and the stage of pregnancy that the exposure occurred at.
• Cushing-like symptoms: Symptoms similar to those of Cushing's disease
• Drug abuse: Drug use as a symptom of other conditions
• Exercise: The use of the human muscles to improve ones health
• HIV/AIDS: HIV is a sexually transmitted virus and AIDS is the progressive immune failure that HIV causes.
• Head symptoms: Symptoms affecting the head or brain
• Hemiplegia: Paralysis of one side of the body.
• Hyperthyroidism: The excessive activity of the thyroid gland
• Inclusion Body Myositis: Progressive inflammatory muscle disease causing muscle weakness.
• Leg symptoms: Symptoms affecting the leg
• Limb symptoms: Symptoms affecting the limbs
• Liver symptoms: Symptoms affecting the liver
• Malaria: A parasitic disease transmitted through mosquito bites.
• Malnutrition: Any disorder that relates to inadequate intake of nutrients.
• Mononucleosis: Common infectious virus.
• Motor neuron diseases: Any of various disorders of the "motor neurons", nerves that control movement.
• Movement symptoms: Changes to movement or motor abilities
• Muscle atrophy: Decrease in size and bulk of muscle.
• Muscle conditions: Any condition that affects the muscles of the body
• Muscle symptoms: Symptoms affecting the muscles of the body
• Muscle weakness: Weakness of the muscles or loss of tone
• Musculoskeletal symptoms: Symptoms affecting muscles or bones of the skeleton.
• Nerve symptoms: Symptoms affecting the nerves
• Neurological symptoms: Any symptoms that are caused by neurological conditions
• Numbness of both elbows: Numbness of both elbows refers to the loss or reduction of sensation in the elbows.
• Osteoarthritis: A form of degenerative arthritis due to chronic degeneration
• Polio: Dangerous virus now rare due to vaccination.
• Polyarteritis nodosa: A serious blood vessel disease where small and medium-sized arteries become swollen and damaged and are unable to adequately supply oxygenated blood to various tissues in the body. The disease can occur in a mild form or a serious, rapidly fatal form.
• Polymyalgia rheumatica: A condition characterized by muscle pain and stiffness, fatigue and fever. It is often associated with giant-cell arteritis which is a related but more serious condition.
• Rheumatoid arthritis: An autoimmune inflammatory condition which primarily affects the joints
• Schistosomiasis: Parasitic fluke infection in developing countries
• Sensations: Changes to sensations or the senses
• Syringomyelia: Spinal cord cysts
• Tuberculosis: Bacterial infection causing nodules forming, most commonly in the lung.
• Upper leg symptoms: Symptoms affecting the thigh and upper leg area.

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Quadriceps muscle weakness:

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