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Symptoms could include:
- Skin Lesion
- Numbness
- Paresthesia
- Impaired Sensation
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Skin Plaques
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Decreased Skin Pigmentation
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Numbness of Skin
- Pain
- Papule
- Tingling
- Muscle Weakness
- Burning Sensation
- Discoloration of Sk...
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Muscular Paralysis
- Skin Redness
- Hand Numbness
- Toe Numbness
- Finger Pain
- Finger Numbness
- Numbness of Limbs
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Numbness of Lower Limbs
- Numbness of Foot
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The organism that causes leprosy is a rod-shaped bacterium called Mycobacterium leprae . This bacterium is related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the causative agent of tuberculosis . Because special staining techniques involving acids are requir...
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A skin lesion is a superficial growth or patch of the skin that does not resemble the area surrounding it.
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Numbness and tingling are abnormal sensations that can occur anywhere in your body, but are often felt in your fingers, hands, feet, arms, or legs.
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Numbness and tingling are decreased or abnormal sensations caused by altered sensory nerve function.
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Impaired sensation is often a signal that there something affecting a nerve or the nervous system. Changes in sensations are often subjective and difficult to describe, that is, experienced by the patient but difficult for the provider to diagnose and treat.
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Pain is a universal human experience. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage...
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Pain, medically termed "nociception," is a response to noxious stimuli that is conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons . The discomfort signals actual or impending injury to the body. However, pain is more than a sensation, or the physical awaren...
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Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons. The discomfort signals actual or potential injury to the body. However, pain is more than a sensation, or the physical awareness of pain; it also includes perception, ...
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Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons. The discomfort signals actual or potential injury to the body. However, pain is more than a sensation, or the physical awareness of pain; it also includes perception, ...
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Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is conveyed to the brain by nerves in the body.
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A papule is solid, raised spot on the skin that is less than 1 centimeter wide. See also: Skin lesion
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Numbness and tingling are decreased or abnormal sensations caused by altered sensory nerve function.
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True muscle weakness means that full effort does not produce a normal muscle contraction or movement. A voluntary muscle contraction is generated when the brain sends a signal through the spinal cord and nerves to a muscle.
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Weakness is a reduction in the strength of one or more muscles.
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An abnormal sensation is often a signal that there something affecting a nerve or the nervous system. These sensations are often difficult to describe and are subjective, that is, experienced by the patient but may be difficult for the provider to diagnose and treat.
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Cyanosis is a bluish color to the skin or mucus membranes due to a lack of oxygen in the blood.
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Paralysis is defined as complete loss of strength in an affected limb or muscle group.
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Skin redness is skin that is abnormally red in color..
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Sensations are carried from the extremities of the body to the brain via neurons in the spinal cord. If the blood supply to the nerves is decreased, it can produce the feeling that “my hand fell asleep”.
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Sensations are carried from the extremities of the body to the brain via neurons in the spinal cord. If the blood supply to the nerves is decreased, it can produce the feeling that “my toe fell asleep”.
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Finger pain is defined as pain in one or more fingers.
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Sensations are carried from the extremities of the body to the brain via neurons in the spinal cord. If the blood supply to the nerves is or if the nerve is otherwise damaged or its function affected, it can produce the feeling that “my finger fell asleep”.
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Sensations are carried from the extremities of the body to the brain via neurons in the spinal cord. If the blood supply to the nerves is decreased temporarily, it can produce the feeling that “my leg fell asleep”.
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Sensations are carried from the extremities of the body to the brain via neurons in the spinal cord. If the blood supply to the nerves is decreased, it can produce the feeling that “my foot fell asleep”.
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