Other Connective Tissue Disorders
- Scurvy – caused by a dietary deficiency in vitamin C, leading to abnormal collagen.
Read more about this topic: Connective Tissue Disease
Famous quotes containing the words tissue and/or disorders:
“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)