Category: H

Increased white blood cells with normal proportion of various forms and without immature forms.  

Excessive chewing, sucking, lip smacking, or food craving. It is seen in some neurological disorders (e.g., Kluver-Bucy syndrome and Pick’s disease).  

Grafting of a motor nerve into a muscle that has an intact nerve supply.  

Abnormal muscular development.  

A person with disproportionately long limbs whose standing height is high in proportion to the sitting height.  

Excessive joint play (movement) that permits increased mobility. It is present in some connective tissue diseases such as Marfan’s or Ehlers-Danlos syndromes. Extraordinary flexibility in the joints, enabling them to bend or move beyond their typical range of motion, is referred to as hypermobility.  

Overactivity in tissue replacement or transformation from one type of tissue to another, as cartilage to bone.  

A condition of an abnormally increased rate of metabolism; hyperme-tabolism.  

One of several disorders of melanin pigmentation resulting in increased melanin in either the epidermis (melanoderma), in which case the coloration is brown, or in the dermis, in which ease it is blue or slate gray (ceruloderma). This disorder may be caused by a number of diseases and conditions, including pregnancy, ACTH-producing tumors, Wilson’s disease,…

To anything that has passed the stage of maturity.