See Also: Amyloidosis, secondary(health)
secondary amyloidosis(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Amyloidosis(health)
Amyloidosis(medicine)
amyloidosis cutis(medicine)
focal amyloidosis(medicine)
familial amyloidosis(medicine)
Amyloidosis, primary(health)
Amyloidosis, hereditary(health)

Stimulation (medicine) and Amyloidosis, secondary (health)


Stimulation (medicine)


stimulation


1. The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.

2. <physiology> The irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked; especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is thrown into a state of activity; irritation.

Origin: L. Stimulatio: cf. F. Stimulation.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Amyloidosis, secondary (health)


One of a group of diseases (called amyloidosis) in which protein deposits (amyloid) accumulate in one or more organ systems in the body, secondary amyloid is caused by a chronic infection or inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, familial Mediterranean fever, osteomyelitis, or granulomatous ileitis.