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  2. Da Costa's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Da Costa's syndrome, also known as soldier's heart among other names, was a syndrome or a set of symptoms similar to those of heart disease. These include fatigue upon exertion, shortness of breath, palpitations, sweating, chest pain, and sometimes orthostatic intolerance. It was originally thought to be a cardiac condition, and treated with a ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. List of syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Da Costa's syndrome; Daentl Townsend Siegel syndrome; Dahlberg Borer Newcomer syndrome; Dandy–Walker syndrome; De Barsy syndrome; de Clérambault's syndrome; De Quervain syndrome; De Winter syndrome; Dead arm syndrome; Deficiency of the interleukin-1–receptor antagonist; Degenerative disc disease; Dejerine–Roussy syndrome; Delayed sleep ...

  5. Jacob Mendes Da Costa - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, Danish Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician.. He is particularly known for discovering Da Costa's syndrome (also known as soldier's heart), an anxiety disorder combining effort fatigue, dyspnea, a sighing respiration, palpitation and sweating that he first observed in ...

  6. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Stick-it-to-da-man-niosis School of Rock: A rare blood disease made up by Jack Black's character Dewey Finn which he claims the children he is teaching are suffering from. The name comes from his mantra "stick it to the man". When another character claims they've never heard of it, Dewey responds, "You're lucky. Because it's hell." St. Mary's

  7. 46,XX/46,XY - Wikipedia

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    46,XX/46,XY chimeric or mosaic is associated with a wide spectrum of different physical presentations, with cases ranging from having a completely normal male or female phenotype [7] [8] [9] to some cases having ovotesticular syndrome. Due to this variation, genetic testing is the only way to reliably make a diagnosis. [11] [12] [13] [6]

  8. Chest pain - Wikipedia

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    Da Costa's syndrome; Carbon monoxide poisoning: Chest pain, along with symptoms like headache, dizziness, nausea, and confusion, can occur as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is often mistaken for the flu due to its nonspecific presentation [38]

  9. Erythrokeratodermia variabilis - Wikipedia

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    Other names: Progressive symmetric erythrokeratodermia, Gottron type: Erythrokeratodermia variabilis is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner of inheritance: Specialty: Dermatology, medical genetics Usual onset: Infancy