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52 Medical condition in fiction topics matching:
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| x Cancer |
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Mar-Vell |
Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread...
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| x Autistic Disorder |
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Raymond Babbitt |
Autism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism involves many parts of the...
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| x Psi-2000 Virus | Geordi La Forge | ||
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| x Asperger syndrome |
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Jerry Espenson |
Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, and people with it therefore show significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum...
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| x Leprosy |
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Thomas Covenant |
Leprosy (from the Greek lepi, meaning scales on a fish), or Hansen's disease (HD), is a chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves...
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| x Drug addiction | Krusty |
Drug addiction is a pathological condition which arises due to frequent drug use. The disorder of addiction involves the progression of acute drug use to the development of drug-seeking behavior, the vulnerability to relapse, and the decreased,...
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| x Depression | Krusty |
Depression, in kinesiology, is the anatomical term of motion for movement in an inferior direction.
It is the opposite of elevation.
This term is often applied to the shoulders (e.g. dropping them to a normal condition after shrugging them would be...
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| x Vampire |
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Edward Cullen |
Vampires are fictional mythological creatures said to subsist by drinking the blood of their victims. The best known tale about vampires is Bram Stoker's 1897 story, Dracula, which drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar imaginary...
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| x Very Cold to the Touch | Professor Coldheart | ||
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| x Tuberculosis |
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Jūshirō Ukitake |
Tuberculosis (abbreviated TB, which can also stand for tubercle bacillus) is a common and often deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria. In humans, Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the primary causative bacterium although other mycobacteria...
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| x Kleptomania | Lois Griffin |
Kleptomania (also spelled cleptomania) (Greek: κλέπτειν, kleptein, "to steal", μανία, "mania") is the condition of not being able to resist the urge to collect or hoard things. People with this disorder are compelled to steal things, generally...
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| x Hypochondriasis |
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Mort Goldman |
Hypochondriasis (or hypochondria, often referred to as health phobia) refers to an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. Often, hypochondria persists even after a physician has evaluated a person and reassured them that...
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| x Psoriasis |
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Neil Goldman |
Psoriasis (pronounced /səˈraɪəsɪs/) is a chronic, non-contagious autoimmune disease that affects the skin and joints. It commonly causes red, scaly patches to appear on the skin. The scaly patches caused by psoriasis, called psoriatic plaques, are...
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| x Asthma |
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Death |
Asthma is characterized by a predisposition to chronic inflammation of the lungs in which the airways (bronchi) are reversibly narrowed. Asthma affects 7% of the population of the United States, and 300 million worldwide. During asthma attacks ...
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| x Bulimia nervosa |
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Jillian |
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating, followed by compensatory behaviors. The most common form is defensive vomiting, sometimes called purging; fasting, the use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics, and over...
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| x Developmental disability | Opie |
Developmental disability is a term used to describe life-long, disabilities attributable to mental and/or physical or combination of mental and physical impairments, manifested prior to age 18. The term is used most commonly in the United States to...
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| x Anorexia nervosa |
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Hannah Ashworth |
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric illness that describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa are known to control body...
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| x Sexually transmitted disease |
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Dominic Reilly |
A sexually transmitted disease (STD), also known as sexually transmitted infection (STI) or venereal disease (VD), is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans or animals by means of sexual contact, including...
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| Myra McQueen | |||
| x Epilepsy |
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Steph Dean |
Epilepsy (from the Ancient Greek ἐπιληψία epilēpsía) is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity...
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| x HIV infection |
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Malachy Fisher |
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic...
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| x Triskaidekaphobia |
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Bernard |
Triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris meaning "3," kai meaning "and," and deka meaning "10") is fear of the number 13; it is a superstition and related to a specific fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia....
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| x Guillain-Barré syndrome |
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Hayley Ramsey |
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) (French pronunciation: [ɡiˈlɛ̃ baˈʁe]; in English, pronounced /ˈɡiːlæn ˈbɑreɪ/, /ɡiːˈlæn bəˈreɪ/, etc.) is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), an autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral...
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| x Cystic fibrosis |
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James Wicks |
Cystic fibrosis (also known as CF, mucovoidosis, or mucoviscidosis) is a genetic disorder known to be an inherited disease of the secretory glands, including the glands that make mucus and sweat.
The hallmarks of cystic fibrosis are salty tasting...
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| x Leukemia |
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Dawn Cunningham |
Leukemia (British English: leukaemia) (Greek leukos λευκός, "white"; aima αίμα, "blood") is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood...
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| Kerry Mangel, Jr. | |||
| Marisol Delko Caine | |||
| x Shot |
A shot in ice hockey is an attempt by a player to score a goal by striking the puck with their stick in the direction of the net.
There are four basic types of shots in ice hockey:
A count of how many shots are taken by a team is kept and this is...
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| x Gun Shoot Wound | Darren Osborne | ||
| x flash burns | Bradley Branning | ||
| x Deaf culture |
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Noah Chambers |
Deaf culture is a term applied to the social movement that holds deafness to be a difference in human experience rather than a disability. When used in the cultural sense, the word deaf is very often capitalized in writing, and referred to as "big D...
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| x Diabetes mellitus |
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Billy Black |
Diabetes mellitus (pronounced /ˌdaɪ.əˈbiːtiːz/ or /ˌdaɪ.əˈbiːtɨs/; /mɨˈlaɪtəs/ or /ˈmɛlɨtəs/)—often referred to simply as diabetes—is a condition in which the body either does not produce enough, or does not properly respond to, insulin, a hormone...
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| x Bipolar disorder |
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Stacey Slater |
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive disorder, manic depression or bipolar affective disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated...
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| Jean Slater | |||
| x Cone of Shame | Dug | ||
| x Glass In The Eye | Bradley Branning | ||
| x scars | Emily Young | ||
| x Premature birth |
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Amy Mitchell |
In humans, preterm birth refers to the birth of a baby of less than 37 weeks gestational age. Premature birth, commonly used as a synonym for preterm birth, refers to the birth of a premature infant. The child may commonly be referred to throughout...
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| x Breast cancer |
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Peggy Mitchell |
Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the breast, usually in the inner lining of the milk ducts or lobules. There are different types of breast cancer, with different stages (spread), aggressiveness, and genetic makeup. With best treatment, 10...
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| Angela Cunningham | |||
| x Schizophrenia |
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Barry "Newt" Newton |
Schizophrenia (pronounced /ˌskɪtsɵˈfrɛniə/ or /ˌskɪtsɵˈfriːniə/), from the Greek roots skhizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-; "mind") is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities...
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| x Testicular cancer |
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Russ Owen |
Testicular cancer is cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system.
In the United States, between 7,500 and 8,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year. Over his lifetime, a man's risk of testicular cancer...
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| x Teratogenesis | Miles Vorkosigan |
Teratogenesis is a medical term from the Greek, literally meaning monster-making, which derives from teratology, the study of the frequency, causation, and development of congenital malformations￢ﾀﾔmisleadingly called birth defects. These include...
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| x Peach Skin | Shrieky | ||
| x Mental illness |
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Eddie Walker |
At the risk of providing an unwanted tautology, psychiatric illness is an illness treated by a psychiatrist. Psychiatry has always been a discipline that treats all comers. Some patients are self selected (realize something is wrong), and some...
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| x Spina bifida |
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Adam Best |
Spina bifida (Latin: "split spine") is a developmental birth defect caused by the incomplete closure of the embryonic neural tube. Some vertebrae overlying the spinal cord are not fully formed and remain unfused and open. If the opening is large...
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| x Acute renal failure |
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Richard Aaronow |
Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously called acute renal failure (ARF), is a rapid loss of kidney function. Its causes are numerous and include low blood volume, exposure to toxins, and prostate enlargement. AKI is diagnosed on the basis of clinical...
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| x Infant respiratory distress syndrome |
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Chloe Cammeniti |
Infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS), also called neonatal respiratory distress syndrome or respiratory distress syndrome of newborn, previously called hyaline membrane disease, is a syndrome caused in premature infants by developmental...
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| x Vision loss |
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Ravi Roy |
Vision loss or visual loss is the absence of vision where it existed before, which can happen either acutely (i.e. abruptly) or chronically (i.e. over a long period of time).
Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision and...
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| x The Cursed Videotape |
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The Cursed Videotape is a fictional item in the Ring cycle series of books and films. Seemingly a normal home-recorded videotape, the tape carries a curse that will kill anyone who watches it, within seven days (thirteen days in the television...
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| x Captain Trips |
Captain Trips is a fictional virus occurring in the Stephen King novel The Stand.
A form of superflu (influenza), it originates in an American biological weapons laboratory under the Mojave Desert in California, commanded by a General William "Billy...
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| x Black oil |
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Black oil, or black cancer is the name given on The X-Files to a form of extraterrestrial virus with the ability to control the host. In the series, the black oil (Purity) represents a form of extraterrestrial biological entity and an invasion force...
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| x Drug overdose |
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Natasha Andersen |
The term drug overdose (or simply overdose or OD) describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced. An overdose is widely considered harmful and dangerous as it can...
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| x Kidney transplantation |
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Bethany Cunningham |
Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor...
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| x Sleepwalking | Luna Lovegood |
Sleepwalking (also called somnambulism or noctambulism) is a parasomnia (not to be confused with psychosis) or sleep disorder where the sufferer engages in activities normally associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleep-like state....
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| x Lost Leg | Willy Jack Pickens | ||
