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Spider finger

Spider finger (arachnodactylia; Greek arachne – a web, the spider relating to spiders + Greek daktylos – a finger; synonyms: the brush is spidery, an arachnodactyly) – one of anomalies of development which is shown as thinning and lengthening of toes and hands; meets at some hereditary diseases (a homocystinuria, Marfan's disease).

 
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The most rare disease – a disease the Kura. Only representatives of the tribe Faure in New Guinea are ill it. The patient dies of laughter. It is considered that eating of a human brain is an origin of a disease.