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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Ideally, the trump virus reverses the genetic changes caused by the wild card virus, transforming a wild carder back into a normal person. The trump virus is only successful in about 24% of attempts. It doesn't work at all 47% of the time, and an appalling 29% of the time, it outright kills the patient.

  3. 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 ...

  4. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    African sleeping sickness: A-T ... Normal pressure hydrocephalus: NTD Neural tube defect: ... Epstein-Barr virus infection and neoplasia XP

  5. Tetanus - Wikipedia

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    Extended head and neck, tail rigors (tail becomes rigid and straight), abnormal gait (walking becomes stiff and abnormal), arched back, stiffness of the jaw muscles, lockjaw, twitching of eyes, drooping eyelids, difficulty swallowing, difficulty or inability to eat and drink, abdominal bloat, spasms (uncontrolled muscular contractions) before ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Your winter illness guide: What to know about COVID ... - AOL

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    U.S. public health officials usually look to the Southern Hemisphere (which experiences its winter during our summer) for a preview of what’s to come during our own respiratory virus season.

  9. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    back, behind, rear [8] Greek ὄπῐσθεν (ópisthen), behind, at the back opisthotonus-opsy: examination or inspection Greek ὄψῐς (ópsis), view biopsy, autopsy: optic(o)-of or relating to chemical properties of the eye: Middle French optique; from Greek ὀπτῐκός (optikós); cognate with Latin oculus, relating to the eye