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The following is a list of terms used to describe biological disorders of development, arranged by root word and shared prefix: Biological development disorders (cellular, tissue and organic) Feature
The following is a list of genetic disorders and if known, type of mutation and for the chromosome involved. Although the parlance "disease-causing gene" is common, it is the occurrence of an abnormality in the parents that causes the impairment to develop within the child.
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) Office of Rare Diseases (ORD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities; Genetic Disease Information from the Human Genome Project; Global Genes Project, Genetic and Rare Diseases Organization; List of Genetic Disorders - Genome.gov
List of endocrine diseases; List of eponymous diseases; List of eye diseases and disorders; List of intestinal diseases; List of infectious diseases; List of human disease case fatality rates; List of notifiable diseases - diseases that should be reported to public health services, e.g., hospitals. Lists of plant diseases; List of pollution ...
The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include:
What are the neural bases (causes) of mental diseases like psychotic disorders (e.g. mania, schizophrenia), Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, or addiction? Is it possible to recover loss of sensory or motor function?
The fetal origins hypothesis (differentiated from the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis, which emphasizes environmental conditions both before and immediately after birth) proposes that the period of gestation has significant impacts on the developmental health and wellbeing outcomes for an individual ranging from infancy to adulthood.
Teratology is the study of abnormalities of physiological development in organisms during their life span. It is a sub-discipline in medical genetics which focuses on the classification of congenital abnormalities in dysmorphology caused by teratogens and also in pharmacology and toxicology.