keratoconus

corneal disease characterized by structural changes within the cornea causing it to thin and change, leading to a protruding conical shape
MedicalCondition rare_disease Q611984
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keratoconus

Summary

keratoconus is a rare disease[1]. keratoconus ranks in the top 8% of rare_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,879 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • keratoconus's instance of is recorded as rare disease[3].
  • keratoconus's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • keratoconus is a type of corneal disease[5].
  • keratoconus is a type of rare genetic eye disease[6].
  • keratoconus is a type of disease[7].
  • keratoconus's Commons category is recorded as Keratoconus[8].
  • keratoconus's ICPC 2 ID is recorded as F99[9].
  • keratoconus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Keratoconus[10].
  • keratoconus's Commons gallery is recorded as Keratoconus[11].
  • keratoconus's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 371.60[12].
  • keratoconus's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 371.6[13].
  • keratoconus's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C26806[14].
  • keratoconus's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'KC'}[15].
  • keratoconus's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'KCN'}[16].
  • keratoconus's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Conical Cornea'}[17].
  • keratoconus's health specialty is recorded as ophthalmology[18].
  • keratoconus's health specialty is recorded as optometry[19].
  • keratoconus's genetic association is recorded as VSX1[20].
  • keratoconus's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10126[21].
  • keratoconus's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10126[22].
  • keratoconus's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000563[23].
  • keratoconus's exact match is recorded as http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_156071[24].
  • keratoconus's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[25].
  • keratoconus's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+13978'}[26].

Why It Matters

keratoconus ranks in the top 8% of rare_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,879 views/month).[2] keratoconus has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] keratoconus is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . rarediseases.org. rarediseases.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . rarediseases.org. rarediseases.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . rarediseases.org. rarediseases.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . VSX1: a gene for posterior polymorphous dystrophy and keratoconus. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Health specialty ophthalmology, optometry
    Social media followers {'amount': '+13978'}
    Instance of rare disease, class of disease
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