Why do we call it that? Backstories of seven disease names
Diseases get their names from a variety of sources – from Latin or Greek root words, from place names, from the clinician who discovered them, or a well-known patient who had them. But we throw disease names around so commonly these days that many of the decades- or centuries-old origins are long forgotten or overshadowed by…
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