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  2. List of unusual biological names - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Genetic diseases of people and animals in the postapocalyptic setting of Always Coming Home, caused by the leftover chemical and radiation pollution. Vedet involves personality disorders and dementia; sevai usually leads to blindness and other sensory loss, along with degeneration of muscle control.

  4. List of eponymous diseases - Wikipedia

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    An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...

  5. Category:Eponymous diseases - Wikipedia

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    This category contains articles about diseases that were named after people. Subcategories. ... Diseases named after patients (3 P) Down syndrome (3 C, 17 P) E.

  6. 21-year-old with 'Benjamin Button' disorder has the body of a ...

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    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 .

  7. In Netflix’s ‘No Good Deed,’ This Rare Disease Scare Reveals ...

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    The dark comedy stars a bunch of big names, including Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano, and dives into several different storylines. Starting in episode three, we learn that Dennis (O-T Fagbenle) has ...

  8. Lists of medical eponyms - Wikipedia

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    However, because of the nature of the history of medicine, new discoveries are often referred to using the name of the people who initially made the discovery. List of eponymous diseases; List of eponymous fractures; List of eponymous medical devices; List of eponymous medical signs; List of eponymous medical treatments; List of eponymous ...

  9. 3. Ferrules. Everyone knows about pencils. Everyone knows about erasers. But do people know about the ferrule, the metallic band at the top of the pencil that holds the eraser in place?