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It is based on the adverse and ultimately lethal effects of nanotechnology on an unmodified human body. Named the gray death because of the gray patches of discolored scar tissue that cover its victims' skins, if and when the disease is cured. Symptoms include the aforementioned discoloration of the skin, coughing, physical pain and death.
Alfred Blaschko, a private practice dermatologist from Berlin, first described and drew the patterns of the lines of Blaschko in 1901. He obtained his data by studying over 140 patients with various nevoid and acquired skin diseases and transposed the visible patterns the diseases followed onto dolls and statues, then compiled the patterns onto a composite schematic of the human body.
Such cells might then aggregate into a spot with an irregular shape. [13] They propose that the protrusion of a flat spot is a result of the death of aged cells in the spot and release of lipofuscin bodies. [13] The aggregating cells would form a capsule, and the dense lipofuscin bodies make the protruding spot soft and dark in color. [13]
A baby continuously gets bruises and spots all over her body, and even the smallest cuts cause her to lose shocking amounts of blood. Genetic tests reveal that the infant has the rare coagulopathy Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, a recessive genetic condition which prevents platelets from forming blood clots.
Pityriasis rosea is a type of skin rash. [2] Classically, it begins with a single red and slightly scaly area known as a "herald patch". [2] This is then followed, days to weeks later, by an eruption of many smaller scaly spots; pinkish with a red edge in people with light skin and greyish in darker skin. [4]
Girls as young as 8 are turning up at dermatologists’ offices with rashes, chemical burns and other allergic reactions to products not intended for children’s sensitive skin.
Learn more about weird changes in your body—read up on 42 strange symptoms that signal serious disease. Originally Published on Reader's Digest . Learn what itchy skin could reveal below:
Mongolian spot is a congenital developmental condition—that is, one existing from birth—exclusively involving the skin.The blue colour is caused by melanocytes, melanin-containing cells, that are usually located in the surface of the skin (the epidermis), but are in the deeper region (the dermis) in the location of the spot. [6]