Multiple open wounds of multiple body regions

Definition: A form of tic disorder in which there are, or have been, multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics, although these need not have occurred concurrently. The disorder usually worsens during adolescence and tends to persist into adult life. The vocal tics are often multiple with explosive repetitive vocalizations, throat-clearing, and grunting, and there may be the use of obscene words or phrases. Sometimes there is associated gestural echopraxia which may also be of an obscene nature (copropraxia).

Definition: The main features are multiple, recurrent and frequently changing physical symptoms of at least two years' duration. Most patients have a long and complicated history of contact with both primary and specialist medical care services, during which many negative investigations or fruitless exploratory operations may have been carried out. Symptoms may be referred to any part or system of the body. The course of the disorder is chronic and fluctuating, and is often associated with disruption of social, interpersonal, and family behaviour. Short-lived (less than two years) and less striking symptom patterns should be classified u ...[+++]nder undifferentiated somatoform disorder (F45.1). | Briquet's disorder Multiple psychosomatic disorder

myelomatosis | bone marrow cancer

bacteriostatic | antibiotic

antiproliferative | substance to stop spread

Autosomal dominant multiple pterygium syndrome

Juvenile sulfatidosis Austin type

Autosomal recessive multiple epiphyseal dysplasia

Solitary plasmacytoma of the bone is one tumour made up of myeloma cells found in one bone (rather than multiple tumours in different locations, as in multiple myeloma).

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Between 2000–2001 and 2009–2010, IGH-related expenditures increased within each of CIHR's research themes. The greatest increase was in biomedical research, from $1.2 million to $18.3 million (a 15-fold increase), followed by clinical research, from $844,000 to $9.9 million (an 11.8-fold increase), health services research, from $363,000 to $3.4 million (a 9.3-fold increase), and social, cultural, environmental and population health research, from $2 million to $18 million (an 8.8-fold increase).

IgD multiple myeloma causes the same signs and symptoms as other types of multiple myeloma.