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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Hanahaki disease (花吐き病 (Japanese); 하나하키병 (Korean); 花吐病 (Chinese)) is a fictional disease where the victim of unrequited or one-sided love begins to vomit or cough up the petals and flowers of a flowering plant growing in their lungs, which will eventually grow large enough to render breathing impossible if left untreated.

  3. Category:Fictional diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    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. ...

  4. Disease in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Diseases, both real and fictional, play a significant role in fiction, with certain diseases like Huntington's disease and tuberculosis appearing in many books and films. Pandemic plagues threatening all human life, such as The Andromeda Strain, are among the many fictional diseases described in literature and film.

  5. Lists of diseases - Wikipedia

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    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. Lists of plant diseases; List of pollution ...

  6. Category:Lists of diseases - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 13 December 2022, at 13:47 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  7. Gypsy Rose Blanchard Was a Medical Mystery. A Failure of ...

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    Gypsy Rose, who was born in 1991, was a baby when Dee Dee claimed her daughter had sleep apnea. “When Gypsy was 8 years old,” Biography reports, “Dee Dee described her as suffering from ...

  8. Talk:List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Categorizing these diseases by their source material as opposed to their fictional origin is a way to combat that issue here. I am glad that a lot of minor diseases were removed from this list, as the "important" ones were starting to get lost in the mess. A lot of diseases were in the wrong categories, too.

  9. 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 ...