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Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS).

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      Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a medical term referring to any of several disorders of the connective tissue in humans. In its most common form, EDS causes skin to be unusually stretchy and fragile and joints to be excessively flexible. People with EDS may be able to pinch and pull their skin far from their bones and bend their joints in unusual directions. These symptoms are rarely life-threatening, although they can lead to more serious problems such as scarring, joint dislocation, and fragility of organs and blood vessels. Physicians identified EDS symptoms in ancient times, but the syndrome was only formally defined beginning in the 1890s. In the twenty-first century, EDS is relatively common, and people have many treatment options, although a permanent cure or prevention program is not yet known.