Bouchards Osteoarthritis: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Bouchard’s arthrosis is one of the finger arthroses. Specifically affected are the finger middle joints. Protrusions occur at the joints. As the disease progresses, pain occurs and the mobility of the affected finger becomes impaired. What is Bouchard’s arthritis? Finger arthroses include Heberden’s arthrosis. In this case, the outer finger joints are affected. If the … Bouchards Osteoarthritis: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Sexuality during Menopause

For most, it begins insidiously: the nights of love in the early days turn into waking nights of screaming children and periods of too little sleep after way too much work in middle age. If you look ahead from there, you see hair loss, hormonal imbalances and waning passion pass before your mind’s eye. Not … Sexuality during Menopause

Testicular Dystopia: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

The testes migrate from the level of the kidneys to the scrotum during embryonic development. If this migration is not completed before birth, the condition is called testicular dystopia. Testicular dystopias can now be treated surgically or hormonally. What is testicular dystopia? Testicular dystopias are positional abnormalities of the testicle. In this case, the testicle … Testicular Dystopia: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Undescended Testis (Maldescensus Testis): Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

If one or both testicles are not in the scrotum after a child is born, it is a developmental disorder called undescended testis. Such undescended testicle almost always requires medical treatment. What is undescended testis? About 1-3% of all male infants and 30% of all premature infants are affected by undescended testis. Undescended testis is … Undescended Testis (Maldescensus Testis): Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Gigantomastia: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

The mamma, the female breast, is a symbol of nourishment, love and motherhood. But unfortunately, numerous abnormalities can occur in this area. One of them is gigantomastia. What is gigantomastia? Gigantomastia (also macromastia, hypermastia or mammary hypertrophy, translated as giant breast) is an excessively large anlage of the female breast. It can be unilateral or … Gigantomastia: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Hermaphroditism

Hermaphroditism, also called hermaphroditism or hermaphroditism, refers to individuals who cannot be clearly assigned to one sex genetically, anatomically or hormonally. Today, however, the term intersexuality is more commonly used for this medical phenomenon. Intersexuality belongs to the sexual differentiation disorders. The German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) (ICD-10-GM-2018) classifies this form in … Hermaphroditism

Hair: Structure, Function & Diseases

They grow all over the body, are cut, styled, removed, loved and hated: Hair. Yet hair has a not-so-unimportant function to perform. Since hair is perceived as unattractive on most parts of the body, it is often subject to the common fashion dictates. What is hair? Schematic diagram showing the anatomy and structure of human … Hair: Structure, Function & Diseases

The male breast

Introduction The male breast (Mamma masculina) is in principle designed in the same way as the female breast. In contrast to the female form, the male breast is not considered a secondary sexual characteristic. Structure of the male breast Due to a lack of hormonal processes, however, the male breast does not develop further, but … The male breast