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This disease damages the central nervous system. It can cause:BlindnessDeafnessSevere problems with muscle toneThe disease is usually life threatening.
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Prognosis for infantile and juvenile Krabbe disease is very poor. Individuals with infantile type usually die at an average age of 13 months.
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Prognosis for infantile and juvenile Krabbe disease is very poor. Individuals with infantile type usually die at an average age of 13 months.
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Prognosis for infantile and juvenile Krabbe disease is very poor. Individuals with infantile type usually die at an average age of 13 months.
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Death is defined as the cessation of all vital functions of the body including the heartbeat, brain activity(including the brain stem), and breathing.Death comes in many forms, whether it be expected after a diagnosis of terminal illness or an une...
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Death is the end of life, a permanent cessation of all vital functions. Dying refers to the body''s preparation for death, which may be very short in the case of accidental death, or can last weeks or months in some patients such as those with canc...
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Mourning is the grieving process an individual experiences in response to the loss(often through death) of someone.Almost every child or adolescent faces the death of someone close(a relative, friend, or even a pet) at some point in his or her lif...
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Death and Mourning Understanding and adjusting to death and loss at various stages of life. Almost every child or adolescent faces the death of someone close—a relative, friend, or even a pet—at some point in his or her life.
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Death is the end of life, a permanent cessation of all vital functions. Dying refers to the body''s preparation for death, which may be very short in the case of accidental death, or can last weeks or months in some cancer patients.Quality and meth...
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Blindness is a lack of vision. It may also refer to a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.Partial blindness means you have very limited vision.
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Visual impairment or low vision is a severe reduction in vision that can''t be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person''s ability to function at certain or all tasks. Legal blindness(which is actually a severe visual i...
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Hearing loss is the total or partial inability to hear sound in one or both ears.Decreased hearing; Deafness; Loss of hearing; Conductive hearing loss; Sensorineural hearing loss.Minor decreases in hearing are common after age 20.Hearing problems ...
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Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to comprehend sound.Sound can be accurately measured. The term decibel(dB) refers to an amount of energy moving sound from its source to the ears of one or more listeners or to a microphone.
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Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to apprehend sound.Sound can be measured accurately. The term decibel(dB) refers to an amount of energy moving sound from its source to our ears or to a microphone.
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Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to apprehend sound.Sound can be measured accurately. The term decibel(dB) is a measure of loudness and refers to a unit for expressing the relative intensity of sound on a scale from zero, fo...
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Hypotonia is often a sign of a worrisome problem. It may be a sign of a central nervous system problem, genetic disorder, or muscle disorder.Infants with hypotonia seem floppy and feel like a"rag doll" does when held.
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Hypotonia means"low tone," and refers to a physiological state in which a muscle has decreased tone, or tension. A muscle''s tone is a measure of its ability to resist passive elongation or stretching.Hypotonia is more a description than a diagnosis.
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Hypotonia, or severely decreased muscle tone, is seen primarily in children. Low-toned muscles contract very slowly in response to a stimulus and cannot maintain a contraction for as long as a normal muscle.
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