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| Eponyms in category: Historical, literary, mythological and animal |
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| Apollo disease |
| A highly contagius disturbance caused by picornavirus and characterized by subconjunctival haemorrhagia around limbus corneae. |
| Achilles' paradox |
| A paradox stating that the faster runner can never catch a slower runner because he is forever arriving at a point the slower runner has just vacated. |
| Albatros reaction |
| A variant of Münhhausen's syndrome. |
| Alexander the Great wound |
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| Barbarian |
| Anybody not speaking Greek. You barbarian!
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| Die Rosenmüllerhöhle (Rosenmüller's cave) |
| A cave in Franconian Switzerland, in Northern Bavaria, Germany. |
| Rosenmüller's bear |
| The cave bear. |
| Rosenmüller's cave |
| A cave in Franconian Switzerland, in Northern Bavaria, Germany. |
| Yentl's syndrome |
| The phenomenon that women are treated less optimal in the management of coronary heart disease than men. |
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