blepharospasm

focal dystonia that is characterized by the involuntary, forcible contraction of the muscles controlling eye blinks
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q883863
blepharospasm
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blepharospasm

Summary

blepharospasm is a class of disease[1]. blepharospasm draws 188 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_disease category, ranking #477 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • blepharospasm's image is recorded as Gray379.png[3].
  • blepharospasm's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • blepharospasm's subclass of is recorded as focal dystonia[5].
  • blepharospasm's subclass of is recorded as cranio-facial dystonia[6].
  • blepharospasm's subclass of is recorded as disease[7].
  • blepharospasm's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D001764[8].
  • blepharospasm's OMIM ID is recorded as 606798[9].
  • blepharospasm's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 73557[10].
  • blepharospasm's DiseasesDB is recorded as 15748[11].
  • blepharospasm's MedlinePlus ID is recorded as 000756[12].
  • blepharospasm's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08k14_[13].
  • blepharospasm's ICPC 2 ID is recorded as N99[14].
  • blepharospasm's MeSH tree code is recorded as C11.338.250[15].
  • blepharospasm's eMedicine ID is recorded as 1212176[16].
  • blepharospasm's Disease Ontology ID is recorded as DOID:529[17].
  • blepharospasm's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • blepharospasm's Patientplus ID is recorded as Blepharospasm[19].
  • blepharospasm's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 333.81[20].
  • blepharospasm's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C118723[21].
  • blepharospasm's health specialty is recorded as neurology[22].
  • blepharospasm's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as botulinum toxin type A[23].
  • blepharospasm's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as cyproheptadine[24].
  • blepharospasm's genetic association is recorded as DRD5[25].
  • blepharospasm's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_529[26].
  • blepharospasm's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:529[27].

Why It Matters

blepharospasm draws 188 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_disease category, ranking #477 of 1,968).[2] blepharospasm has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] blepharospasm is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . patient.co.uk. patient.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Q905695. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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