Diseases = funny names?
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St. Vitus Dance
A group of nervous disorders manifested in sudden involuntary movements, often quite intense uncontrollable jerking.
When my kids have a party, I often think that they must all have St Vitus Dance when I watch them react to the music, LOL
tourettes.
Spina bifida, hahahaha. hepatitus C. man there are so many!
is that a formula or what?
Yarhoodelers syndrome..getting stuck on Y/A for several years
kawasaki disease. mooshupelumi syndrome, ashpayeewah disorder?
Does it have to be real??
If not...fimdiddlyosis...I made it up a year or two ago.
It's a disease where you laugh uncontrollably at anything said, thought, or done that was really stupid. There is no cure for it, and when you are in class or something and you think of something funny and start laughing people think you're nuts because they don't know what you're laughing at.
Spontaneous pneumothorax---it's when one of your lungs collapses suddenly without warning and no trauma OOPS popped a lung hahaha I think medical people find these types of things funnier than most
condromilaciapatella- where the knee rubs against the knee cap. not sure if i spelt it properly.
This is not a question about Infectious Disease.
Hashimoto's auto-immune thyroiditis. = now just called auto- immune thyroiditis.
Goodpasture's Syndrome = auto-immune glomerularnephritis.
Pyronie's disease = fibrous plaques on the penis
Munchhausen's syndrome = a type of hypochondria where the patient tries to get surgical procedures performed.
The list believe me is endless. Bad news current medical students are now not supposed to be taught the names of diseases that use these eponyms.
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