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Qualm
1. Sickness, disease, pestilence, or death. As in 'A thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [not dead of sickness]' (Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales) 2. A sudden sick feeling. As in 'A qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most…
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- Zebra The term 'zebra' in medicine does not refer to the striped African animal but to an unlikely diagnostic…