Organomegaly involves the enlargement of body organs. Many different factors may cause such enlargement. While some causes are benign, others are more serious. Heart enlargement, liver enlargement, and spleen enlargement â called cardiomegaly, hepatomegaly, and splenomegaly, respectively â represent three examples of abnormal organ enlargement.
Thumb pain can result from damage or injury to any of the structures in your thumb, including bones, joints, tendons, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, connective tissue, skin or fingernails. The symptoms may be constant or they may vary, and they may improve or worsen with movement.
What are the causes of thumb pain? Thumb pain can be caused by problems in the soft tissues, the bones and the joints. The soft tissue problems tend to be on the palmar side of the joint. The bone pain is usually at the site of problem but sometimes is felt in one of the neighbouring joints. Joint pain is likewise typically at the site of joint pathology but can be felt in one of the neighbouring joints typically the one just further away from the hand (distal).