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- noun medicine Any of a range of
dysfunctions of theautonomic nervous system
Etymologies
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Examples
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For Ezra of Highland Park, N.J., a trip such as this is a major undertaking: He has familial dysautonomia, a genetic disease of the nervous system.
Kids of Courage takes ill youths on cross-country adventure 2011
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For Ezra of Highland Park, N.J., a trip such as this is a major undertaking: He has familial dysautonomia, a genetic disease of the nervous system.
Kids of Courage takes ill youths on cross-country adventure 2011
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Some well-understood examples of these sorts of mutations include the single base pair changes that lead to cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia or other, rarer hereditary diseases like familial dysautonomia or acid maltase disease (a.k.a. Glycogen storage disease type II or Pompe disease, as was featured in recent Harrison Ford flick Extraordinary Measures).
Dr. Elaine Schattner: An Educated Medical Consumer: On Personal DNA Testing 2010
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Some well-understood examples of these sorts of mutations include the single base pair changes that lead to cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia or other, rarer hereditary diseases like familial dysautonomia or acid maltase disease (a.k.a. Glycogen storage disease type II or Pompe disease, as was featured in recent Harrison Ford flick Extraordinary Measures).
Dr. Elaine Schattner: An Educated Medical Consumer: On Personal DNA Testing 2010
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Ms. BAILEY: Depending on what specialist you go to, you can get a different diagnosis, whether it's dysautonomia or mitochondrial disease or chronic fatigue syndrome.
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One year later she was diagnosed with dysautonomia, a disease that affects the autonomic nervous system that would render her unable to practice medicine.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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One year later she was diagnosed with dysautonomia, a disease that affects the autonomic nervous system that would render her unable to practice medicine.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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It wasn't fun, but it established the rare dysautonomia diagnosis beyond all argument and gave the doctors something to work from rather than blaming me for my symptoms, as a few of them did.
My specialist referral: blamed for my own death. Will ANYONE be 'responsible?' Elizabeth McClung 2009
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She has lived her entire life with familial dysautonomia, a less severe form of HSAN.
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Suffering fainting spells and chronic fatigue, Page was later diagnosed with orthostatic intolerance or dysautonomia which left him unable to perform and walking with the aid of a cane.
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After much reading, I theorised I must have a form of dysautonomia: a disorder of the autonomic nervous system, which controls essential bodily functions like blood pressure, heartbeat and metabolism.
Experience: I cured my own mystery disease Doug Lindsay 2019
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Getting policed about a hidden health issue isn’t new to Ms. Coody, who has a condition called dysautonomia, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system that can cause her to suddenly pass out.
‘How Did You Qualify?’ For the Young and Vaccinated, Rude Questions and Raised Eyebrows By 2021
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