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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:18:22PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > He has Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease. > He has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. > He has subacute spongiform encephalopathy. > > These three terms may be substituted for one another in any context. The first two, perhaps (one could perhaps arrive at a contorted exception), but: "Subacute spongiform encephalopathy, named after ... the name of which gives a concise description ..." "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, named after ... the name of which illustrates the common practice in the medical research world of ..." Colin
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