eMedicine - Acute Coronary Syndrome Serious condition that may occur in heart disease and angina patients. Symptoms may include chest pain and palpitations caused by myocardial ischemia.
Cause Of Action In the law, a cause of action is a recognized kind of legal claim that a plaintiff pleads or alleges in a complaint to start a lawsuit. Examples are: breach of contract; torts such as injury, invasion of privacy, fraud, slander, malpractice, intentional infliction of emotional distress; suits at equity. "Cause of action" encompasses both the legal theory of what legal wrong the plaintiff claims to have suffered, and the remedy, which is what a court is allowed to order the defendant to do to compensate the plaintiff for that wrong.
Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD) and atherosclerotic heart disease, is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the arteries that supply the myocardium (the muscle of the heart). While the symptoms and signs of coronary heart disease are noted in the advanced state of disease, most individuals with coronary heart disease would have evidence of disease decades before the first symptoms arise. After decades of progression, some of these atheromatous plaques may rupture and (along with the activation of the blood clotting system) start limiting blood flow to the heart muscle. Current views are that an inflammatory process of the lining of the arteries, though poorly understood in specifics, promotes the disease progression.
Heart Of Darkness :Heart of Darkness (literary device) is a universally used, unwritten device in literature and movies.
Heart Of Oak Heart of Oak is the official march of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom (which also incorporates the Royal Marines). It is also the official march of the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, the naval component of the Canadian Forces.
Lyrics:
Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year;
To honour we call you, not press you like slaves,
For who are as free as the sons of the waves?
International Statistical Classification Of Diseases And Related Health Problems The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) is a detailed description of known diseases and injuries. It is published by the World Health Organization and is used world-wide for morbidity and mortality statistics.
It is revised periodically and is currently in its tenth edition, known as the ICD-10.
Causes Of Psychiatric Disorder What are the causes of psychiatric disorders? There are several theories, but most mainstream thought in the fields of psychiatry, neurobiology, and related specialties, relates each disease to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. There are also illnesses caused wholly by physical trauma. Many psychiatric diseases might best be considered as syndromes, that is, consistent groups of symptoms that do not always have a single cause.