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 | | Medically, a lesion is a term referring to abnormal tissue in the body that can be caused by many factors including disease, trauma, infection, or neoplasm which is an abnormal growth of tissue, such as a tumor (Healthopedia.com, n.d.). |
| | Other symptoms of a hypothalamic lesion include weight loss or gain, paleness, excessive sweating, tremor or shakiness, irritability, involuntary eye movements, euphoria, headaches that tend to be worse during the morning, and, in children, failure to thrive, which is a lack of normal growth (Cook, 1996). |
| | A lesion to the lateral preoptic area impairs osmotic thirst by disrupting the systems that detect when the concentration of solutes is not in a state of equilibrium (Kalat 2004). |
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