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A disease that attacks the central nervous system, fooling it into calcifying the bodily tissue, eventually turning the victim into a pile of rocks. More commonly known as cobbles. Cyberbrain sclerosis Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: A disease characterized by a hardening of the brain tissues precipitated by the cyberization process.
Pseudoscientific diseases are not defined using objective criteria. Such diseases cannot achieve, and perhaps do not seek, medical recognition. Pseudoscience rejects empirical methodology. [1] Other conditions may be rejected or contested by orthodox medicine, but are not necessarily associated with pseudoscience.
Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [13] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...
After the disease had progressed into a larger epidemic, the tribal people asked Charles Pfarr, a Lutheran medical officer, to come to the area to report the disease to Australian authorities. [7] Initially, the Fore people believed the causes of kuru to be sorcery or witchcraft. [35] They also thought that the magic causing kuru was contagious.
Here's how serious the diagnosis is in real life. On Netflix's 'No Good Deed,' Denis is worried that he has sarcoidosis, a rare disease that killed his father. Here's how serious the diagnosis is ...
Erethism, [n 1] also known as erethismus mercurialis, mad hatter disease, or mad hatter syndrome, is a neurological disorder which affects the whole central nervous system, as well as a symptom complex, derived from mercury poisoning.
The world's oldest real-life "Benjamin Button" is barely older than a teenager, but he has the body of a 160-year-old. Rupesh Kumar, 21, lives in India and weighs under 45 pounds, Express reports .
According to GNM no real diseases exist; rather, what established medicine calls a "disease" is actually a "special meaningful program of nature" (sinnvolles biologisches Sonderprogramm) to which bacteria, viruses and fungi belong. Hamer's GNM claims to explain every disease and treatment according to those premises and to thereby obviate ...