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Why your medical condition might be named after a food

By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University

From watermelon stomach to chocolate cysts, you might wonder why doctors decided to name some ailments after foods – after all, it’s enough to put you off your dinner.

When early physicians and surgeons were studying the body to understand normal function or disease, they lacked modern

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