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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    A "metaphysical, deconstructionist" virus spread by the English language. Symptoms begin with palilalia as they repeat certain words (usually terms of endearment), proceeding to full aphasia and finally cannibalistic rage as the affected individual grows insane from an inability to express themselves clearly. Andromeda The Andromeda Strain

  3. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Hendra virus infection HF Heart failure: HFA High-functioning autism: HFMD Hand, foot, and mouth disease: HFRS Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome: HI Hearing impaired: HiB disease Haemophilus influenzae type B disease: HIBM Hereditary inclusion body myopathy: HMSN Type III Hereditary motor and sensory polyneuropathy type III (see Dejerine ...

  4. List of deprecated terms for diseases - Wikipedia

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    Norwalk virus: Norovirus [17] Named after the town of Norwalk, Ohio, where the disease was first distinctly identified. Phthisis: Tuberculosis [5] From the Greek word for consumption. Quinsy: Peritonsillar abscess [18] From the French term esquinancie. Saint Vitus Dance: Sydenham's chorea [19] Named for Saint Vitus the Martyr: Spanish fever ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Antigen detection, polymerase chain reaction assay, virus isolation, and serology: Most infections are mild and require no therapy or only symptomatic treatment. Under research [1] Trypanosoma brucei: African sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) Identification of trypanosomes in a sample by microscopic examination

  7. List of diseases (S) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "S". ... Serum sickness; Serious digitalis intoxication; ... Simian B virus infection;

  8. List of diseases (R) - Wikipedia

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    Rubella virus antenatal infection; Rubella, congenital; Rubella; Rubeola; Rubinstein–Taybi like syndrome; Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome (gene promoter involvement) Rudd Klimek syndrome; Rudiger syndrome; Rumination syndrome; Rupophobia; Rutledge–Friedman Harrod syndrome; Ruvalcaba–Churesigaew–Myhre syndrome; Ruvalcaba syndrome; Ruvalcaba ...

  9. List of diseases (I) - Wikipedia

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