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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Where the dog contracted the disease is unknown. Despite the name of the franchise, fever is never indicated as being a symptom of the disease. Geostigma Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: A disease caused by Jenova's presence in the Lifestream as it rose to destroy Meteor in the ending of Final Fantasy VII.

  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. Category:Fictional diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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  5. 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.

  6. Category:Fictional viruses - Wikipedia

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  7. List of fictional parasites - Wikipedia

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    Ceti eel - creature in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, invading the human brain [2] Chimera Anima - blob-shaped parasitic aliens in manga Tokyo Mew Mew, infecting animals and changing them into monsters

  8. Category:Fiction about diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Fictional diseases and disorders (5 C, 23 P) Novels about diseases and disorders (11 C, 32 P) Short stories about diseases and disorders (2 C, 2 P) C.

  9. List of unusual biological names - Wikipedia

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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. [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 ...