Bones
82 diseases · 8 high-burden in India
Spondylosis is the degeneration of the vertebral column from any cause. In the more…
Osteomalacia is a disease characterized by the softening of the bones caused by impaired…
Renal osteodystrophy is defined as an alteration of bone in patients with chronic kidney…
Rickets is a condition that results in weak or soft bones in children and may have either…
Skeletal fluorosis is a bone disease caused by excessive accumulation of fluoride leading…
Pott's disease is tuberculosis of the spine, usually due to hematogenous spread from…
Vitamin D deficiency or hypovitaminosis D is a vitamin D level that is below normal. It…
Achondroplasia is a genetic disorder whose primary feature is dwarfism. It is the most…
Adamantinoma is a rare bone cancer, making up less than 1% of all bone cancers. It almost…
Aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) is a non-cancerous bone tumor composed of multiple varying…
Apert syndrome is a form of acrocephalosyndactyly, a congenital disorder characterized by…
Avascular necrosis (AVN), also called osteonecrosis or bone infarction, is death of bone…
An osteosarcoma (OS) or osteogenic sarcoma (OGS) is a cancerous tumor in a bone.…
Infantile cortical hyperostosis (ICH) is a self-limited inflammatory disorder of infants…
Campomelic dysplasia (CMD) is a genetic disorder characterized by bowing of the long…
Camurati–Engelmann disease (CED) is a very rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder that…
Chondroblastoma is a rare, benign, locally aggressive bone tumor that typically affects…
Chondrodysplasia punctata is a clinically and genetically diverse group of rare diseases,…
Chondromyxoid fibroma is a rare type of cartilage tumor which rarely occurs in the skull…
Cleidocranial dysostosis (CCD), also called cleidocranial dysplasia, is a birth defect…
Costochondritis, also known as chest wall pain syndrome or costosternal syndrome, is a…
Crouzon syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder caused by a mutation in a gene…
Diastrophic dysplasia is an autosomal recessive dysplasia which affects cartilage and…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a condition characterized by abnormal…
Ellis–Van Creveld syndrome is a rare genetic disorder of the skeletal dysplasia type.
Ewing sarcoma is a type of pediatric cancer that forms in bone or soft tissue. Symptoms…
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, also called Münchmeyer disease or formerly…
Fibrous dysplasia is a very rare nonhereditary genetic disorder where normal bone and…
Giant-cell tumor of the bone (GCTOB) is a relatively uncommon bone tumor characterized by…
Goldenhar syndrome is a rare congenital defect characterized by incomplete development of…
Hereditary multiple osteochondromas (HMO), also known as hereditary multiple exostoses,…
Hypochondroplasia (HCH) is a developmental disorder caused by an autosomal dominant…
Asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia (ATD), also known as Jeune syndrome, is a rare inherited…
Klippel–Feil syndrome (KFS), also known as cervical vertebral fusion syndrome, is a rare…
Larsen syndrome (LS) is a congenital disorder discovered in 1950 by Larsen and associates…
Madelung's deformity is usually characterized by malformed wrists and wrist bones and is…
Maffucci syndrome is a very rare disorder in which multiple benign tumors of cartilage…
Melorheostosis is a medical developmental disorder and mesenchymal dysplasia in which the…
Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED), also known as Fairbank's disease, is a rare genetic…
A non-ossifying fibroma (NOF) is a benign bone tumor of the osteoclastic, giant cell-rich…
Osgood–Schlatter disease (OSD) is inflammation of the patellar ligament at the tibial…
Osteitis pubis is a noninfectious inflammation of the pubic symphysis, causing varying…
Osteochondritis dissecans is a joint disorder primarily of the subchondral bone in which…
Osteofibrous dysplasia is a rare, benign non-neoplastic condition with no known cause. It…
Osteogenesis imperfecta, colloquially known as brittle bone disease, is a group of…
An osteoid osteoma is a benign (non-cancerous) bone tumor that arises from osteoblasts…
Osteomyelitis (OM) is the infectious inflammation of bone. It may be acute or chronic and…
Osteopoikilosis is a benign, autosomal dominant, sclerosing (hardening) dysplasia of bone…
Paget's disease of bone is a condition involving cellular remodeling and deformity of one…
Pseudoachondroplasia is an inherited disorder of bone growth. It is a genetic autosomal…
Pycnodysostosis is a lysosomal storage disease of the bone caused by a mutation in the…
Scheuermann's disease is a skeletal disorder. It describes a condition where the…
Sever's disease, also known as calcaneal apophysitis, is an inflammation at the back of…
A bone cyst, or geode, is a cyst that forms in bone. They are benign and can be found in…
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis, or slipped upper femoral epiphysis, or coxa vara…
Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita is a type of autosomal dominant dwarfism caused by…
Spondylolisthesis refers to a condition in which one spinal vertebra slips out of place…
Sprengel's deformity is a rare congenital skeletal abnormality where a person has one…
A stress fracture is a fatigue-induced bone fracture caused by repeated stress over time.…
Tarsal coalition is an abnormal connecting bridge of tissue between two normally-separate…
Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) is a genetic disorder characterized by deformities of the…