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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 ...
Adiposogenital dystrophy. Adipsia. Adrenoleukodystrophy. Adult polyglucosan body disease. Adult-onset Still's disease. Agammaglobulinemia-microcephaly-craniosynostosis-severe dermatitis syndrome. Aggressive fibromatosis. AIDS dysmorphic syndrome. Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy.
Rare disease. A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, the term orphan disease describes a rare disease whose rarity results in little or no funding or research for treatments, without financial incentives from governments or other agencies.
Bazi plague is a deadly, rapidly spreading disease with no known cure. Its symptoms include pustules that appear all over the body, and a yellowing of the whites of the eyes. Black trump virus. Wild Cards by George R. R. Martin Wild Cards by George R. R. Martin. The black trump virus is a variant of xenovirus takis-B.
Rare diseases caused by infectious agents rather than genetic or environmental factors. Pages in category "Rare infectious diseases" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Fields condition. Fields condition, [1] also known as Fields' disease, [2][3] is a neuromuscular disease that is considered the rarest medical condition in the world. It was named after Welsh identical twins Catherine and Kirstie Fields, who are two of only three people known to have been affected. [4][5][6]
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. [13] 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 ...
An ultra-rare disease is a disease that affects an extremely small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, an ultra-orphan disease is a rare disease whose rarity means there is a lack of a market large enough to have support and resources for discovering treatments for it. [1][2][3] Distinct countries define and provide ...