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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    A deadly, flu-based virus. Created as a biological weapon codenamed Blue. Causes a lethally high fever and is highly contagious. It is deadly because as the body fights off the disease, it mutates into different strains of influenza, making immunity next to impossible. Chivrel Dray Prescot series by Kenneth Bulmer

  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 medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  5. 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

  6. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Albinism, black lock, cell migration disorder: ABPA Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: ACC Agenesis of the corpus callosum: ACS Acute coronary syndrome: ACTH deficiency Adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency: ACUG Arthrocutaneouveal granulomatosis (see Blau syndrome) ACVD Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: AD Alzheimer's disease: AD

  7. Polio - Wikipedia

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    Poliomyelitis (/ ˌ p oʊ l i oʊ ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ l aɪ t ɪ s / POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. [1] Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; [5] mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and paresthesia.

  8. Glossary of biology - Wikipedia

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    Also called an antibacterial. A type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections. Archaea One of the three recognized domains of organisms, the other two being Bacteria and Eukaryota. artificial selection Also called selective breeding. The process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively control the development of particular ...

  9. Infection - Wikipedia

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    There are some viruses that can maintain a persistent infection by infecting different cells of the body. Some viruses once acquired never leave the body. A typical example is the herpes virus, which tends to hide in nerves and become reactivated when specific circumstances arise. [25]