Glossary for Sleeping difficulty
Medical terms related to Sleeping difficulty or mentioned in this section include:
- Alcohol abuse: Excessive alcohol as a symptom of other conditions
- Anemia, Iron-Deficiency: A lack of fully functioning red blood cells due to a deficiency of iron. The iron allows the body to make hemoglobin in red blood cells which in turn allows the red blood cell to carry oxygen.
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts: A bone marrow disease which results in insufficient red blood cells in the blood (anemia). The prognosis is poor with death usually occurring within a couple of years. There are two types: type 1 refers to cases where the level of blasts is less than 10% and type 2 refers to cases where the level of blasts is 10-20%. When too many immature blood cells (blasts) are produced by the bone marrow, the condition may progress to acute myeloid leukemia - occurs in about a quarter of cases in type 1 and a third of cases in type 2.
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts, type 1: A bone marrow disease which results in insufficient red blood cells in the blood (anemia). The prognosis is poor with death usually occurring within a couple of years. Type 1 refers to cases where the level of blasts is less than 10% and type 2 refers to cases where the level of blasts is 10-20%. When too many immature blood cells (blasts) are produced by the bone marrow, the condition may progress to acute myeloid leukemia - occurs in about a quarter of cases in type 1.
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts, type 2: A bone marrow disease which results in insufficient red blood cells in the blood (anemia). The prognosis is poor with death usually occurring within a couple of years. Type 1 refers to cases where the level of blasts is less than 10% and type 2 refers to cases where the level of blasts is 10-20%. When too many immature blood cells (blasts) are produced by the bone marrow, the condition may progress to acute myeloid leukemia - occurs in about a third of cases in type 2.
- Aplastic anemia: A blood disorder where the bone marrow produces insufficient new blood cells.
- Behavioral symptoms: Symptoms of personal behavior.
- Caffeine poisoning: Excessive ingestion of caffeine.
- Chagas disease: A parasitic infection caused by the protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by insect bites or blood transfusions. The disease primarily involves the heart and gastrointestinal system.
- Circadian rhythm disorder: Circadian rhythm disorder are a family of sleep disorders affecting, among other things, the timing of sleep.
- Cognitive impairment: General loss of mental or cognitive ability
- Cyclothymic disorder: A persistent disorder where the sufferer's mood swings from elation to depression are not severe enough to be diagnosed as bipolar disorder.
- Depression: Inappropriate depressed mood.
- Depressive symptoms: Inappropriate depressed mood.
- Dream disturbance:
- Drowsiness: Excessive tiredness or sleepiness
- Earache: Pain in the ear called "otalgia"
- Emotional stress: A condition which occurs when a person is under stress affecting their emotions
- Fatigue: Excessive tiredness or weakness.
- Inborn amino acid metabolism disorder: A group of inherited disorders where the body is not able to metabolize amino acids consumed in the diet. Amino acids are a part of carbohydrates, fats and proteins and are metabolized in order to provide energy or to make other needed compounds. There are many steps involved in metabolism and the severity can be greatly variable depending on the exact nature of the disorder.
- Insomnia: feeling of melancholy
- Irritability: Excessive feelings of annoyance or frustration.
- Jet lag: Jet lag is a physiological condition which is a consequence of alterations to circadian rhythms; it is classified as one of the circadian rhythm sleep disorders. Jet lag results from rapid long-distance transmeridian (east-west or west-east) travel, as on a jet plane.
- Menopause: End of female reproductive years
- Middle ear infection: An infection which occurs in the middle ear
- Nocturia: This is when there is excessive urination at night.
- Nocturnal symptoms: Symptoms related to sleeping or other nocturnal issues.
- Personality symptoms: Symptoms or changes to the personality.
- Primary insomnia: Primary insomnia is sleeplessness that is not attributable to a medical, psychiatric, or environmental cause.
- Restless leg syndrome: irrestible urge to move one's body to stop uncomfortable or odd sensation
- Secondary restless leg syndrome: Secondary restless leg syndrome is a condition that is characterized by an irresistible urge to move one's body to stop uncomfortable or odd sensations. It most commonly affects the legs, but can also affect the arms or torso.
- Sleep disorders: Any condition which affects ones sleep
- Sleep symptoms: Symptoms affecting sleep patterns.
- Sleeping difficulty in pregnancy: Sleeping difficulty in pregnancy includes initial insomnia, frequent night waking, and restless sleep. It can occur at any stage of pregnancy but is most common in the first and third trimesters.
- Sleeping problems: Any problems that disturb ones sleep
- Sleeping sickness: A disease caused by parasites (Trypanosome brucei gamiense or T. brucei rodesiense) and transmitted to humans by the tsetse fly which is found only in Africa. Causes symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, anemia, edema of hands and feet, enlarged lymph glands, lethargy, sleepiness, convulsions and coma. Also called African sleeping sickness and African trypanosomiasis.
- Society problems: Difficulty interacting in society.
- Substance abuse: Abuse of illicit substances
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