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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 ...
Chemical nomenclature, replete as it is with compounds with very complex names, is a repository for some names that may be considered unusual. A browse through the Physical Constants of Organic Compounds in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (a fundamental resource) will reveal not just the whimsical work of chemists, but the sometimes peculiar compound names that occur as the ...
This is a category of lists of things considered to be unusual in a certain domain. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Image credits: LittlestSlipper55 When you look around, you might be surprised how many things have names that can really mislead you. Take guinea pigs, for example.
We’ve gathered some amusing and oddly satisfying examples of things that perfectly fit into other things. If that sounds like After all, so many folks want buttons and knobs returned to cars and ...
This is a list of placeholder names (words that can refer to things, persons, places, numbers and other concepts whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, unknown or being deliberately withheld in the context in which they are being discussed) in various languages.
Wikipedia probably wasted as much time on this pointless list as it takes for one of these to run out. List of lists of lists: A list of all lists of lists -- and yes, it contains itself. List of non-water floods: Beep beep, massive waves of melted butter, wine, and chocolate coming through! List of paraphilias: Just too many to list.
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...