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- See also changes related to Pediatrics, or pages that link to Pediatrics or to this page or whose text contains "Pediatrics".
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Development
- Infant growth and development [r]: Normal growth and development of infants measured within a set of height, weight, head circumference and other physical parameters, comparative to age. [e]
- Child development [r]: The ensemble of processes that transform an infant into an adolescent. [e]
- Failure to thrive [r]: Add brief definition or description
Infectious disease
- Chickenpox [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cholera [r]: A life-threatening gastrointestinal infections disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, with a high mortality rate from dehydration unless treated, usually with oral rehydration therapy [e]
- Diptheria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Malaria [r]: A tropical infectious disease, caused by protozoa carried by mosquitoes, which is the world's worst insect vector-borne disease [e]
- Measles [r]: Highly contagious infection of the respiratory system, and maculopapular skin rash, caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. [e]
- Mumps [r]: Add brief definition or description
Movement and extremities
- Osgood-Schlatter disease [r]: An overuse injury causing knee pain and limp in adolescents; caused by inflammation of the tendon below the kneecap (patellar tendon) where it attaches to the shinbone (tibia); while most commonly an athletic injury, can be confused with injury from child abuse [e]
Neonatology
- Anencephaly [r]: a malformation of the nervous system caused by failure of the anterior neuropore to close [e]
- Premature infants [r]: Babies born before a full-term gestation of 37 weeks. [e]
- Infant mortality [r]: A concept in demography that estimates the "rate of deaths occurring in the first year of life". [e]
Medicolegal
- Child abuse [r]: The act of intentionally harming a child, or the results of that act. [e]
- Futile care [r]: Medical procedure or treatment that cannot achieve its stated goals or produce its expected benefits, regardless of repetition and duration of treatment. [e]
- Infanticide [r]: Intentionally causing the death of an infant [e]
Respiration
- Infant colic [r]: A medical term for persistent and inconsolable crying by healthy infants, who are usually between the ages of two and sixteen weeks. [e]
- Cystic fibrosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hyaline membrane disease [r]: Add brief definition or description