epistaxis

epistaxis, a relatively common occurrence of hemorrhage from the nose, usually noticed when the blood drains out through the nostrils

Parent Class

fecal occult blood

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistaxis

Symptoms, Cause of

Hematemesis

ICD Code

"784.7", "R04.0"

Class

phenomenon, medical condition, symptom, medical concept, cause

Causes

▶ hypertension, leprosy, rheumatic fever, haemophilia, aplastic anemia,  …

leishmaniasis, asphyxia, traumatic brain injury, vasculitis, acute lymphocytic leukemia, polycythemia vera, Nose-picking, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, Bleeding diathesis, Relapsing polychondritis, Esthesioneuroblastoma, nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, Rhinosporidiosis, Maxillary sinus carcinoma, Nasal type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma

Related Websites

▶ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003106.htm, http://www.healthninjas.com/remedies/nosebleeds.shtml, http://www.drtbalu.com/epistaxis.html, http://stop-nosebleeds.org, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000020.htm,  …

http://www.sinusinfectionhelp.com/sinusitis_and_nosebleed.html

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000002f2b2f"

Cause

▶ hypertension, rheumatic fever, leishmaniasis, asphyxia, Isotretinoin,  …

traumatic brain injury, polycythemia vera, Nose-picking, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, Bleeding diathesis, Relapsing polychondritis, Esthesioneuroblastoma, nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, Rhinosporidiosis, Maxillary sinus carcinoma, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Wegener granulomatosis, Nasal type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, blow to the nose

Diseases DB id

"18327"

Sider URI

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/sider/resource/side_effects/C0014591

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Epistaxis

Mesh ID

"D004844"

Rare Terms

▶ "nosebleeding", "nasal bleeding", "nasal haemorrhage", "nose bleeding", "nasal hemorrhage",  …

"broken nose", "bloody nose"

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/02zbth"