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Its name is a reference to prion diseases like bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Infected snails show rabies like symptoms, including irritability, foaming at the mouth and aggression, which in reality was caused by a splinter Gary had after Squidward tried to make the area around his house snail proof.
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. [14] 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 ...
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 ...
Graves' disease: levator palpebrae superioris spasm Abadie's symptom: Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie: neurology: tabes dorsalis: absence of pain on Achilles tendon pressure Abderhalden reaction: Emil Abderhalden: obstetrics: pregnancy: serum reaction;obsolete Abelin reaction: Isaak Abelin: infectious disease: syphilis: presence of arsenical ...
Recently on the podcast we were chatting about hilarious names that cropped up in City of Heroes back in the day. The puns! Oh, the puns! It was simply glorious. The truth here is that I love ...
List of childhood diseases and disorders; List of endocrine diseases; List of eponymous diseases; List of eye diseases and disorders; List of intestinal diseases; List of infectious diseases; List of human disease case fatality rates; List of notifiable diseases – diseases that should be reported to public health services, e.g., hospitals ...
The name is a reference to the rising and falling of the patient's temperature. White Plague: Tuberculosis [5] The name refers to the pallor of patients with "consumption" (severe tuberculosis). Woolsorter's disease: Anthrax [23] Refers to people who tended to contract the disease (from the sheep) 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Pages in category "Fictional diseases and disorders" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...