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Nutritional and Metabolic disorders

Biomolecular Pathology
Nutritional disorders

METABOLIC DISORDERS

  • disorders of lipid metabolism

NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS

  • decreased cell size or muscle mass and fat due to decreased nutrition or other causes
    • muscular atrophy and dystrophy , gland atrophy
    • low birth weight baby , lean , thin built body , starvation , malnutrition disorders
    • marasmus , kwashirokar
  • increased cell size or muscle mass or fat due to increased nutrition or other causes
    • hepatomegaly , splenomegaly , thyromegaly
    • obesity

MAGNITUDO AUCTA (INCREASED SIZE)

increase in size of hollow organs

MEDICAL CONDITION ENGLISH MEANING
Cardiomegaly big + heart
Ventriculomegaly big + ventricles

Compact organs

MEDICAL CONDITION ENGLISH MEANING MANTRAKSHAR
Hepatomegaly Big + liver
Thyromegaly big + thyroid graves disease , goitre
spleenomegaly big + spleen

increase in size of human body

obesity
gigantism
acromegaly

MAGNITUDO DIMUNITA (Decreased size)

decrease in size of hollow organs

vaginal atrophy

decrease in size of compact organs

muscular atrophy cachexia
dystrophy myotonic dystrophy , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, myotonic dystrophy
gland atrophy

NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC DISORDERS

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