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In medicine, a common disease presenting with unusual symptoms. Also applies to a patient with symptoms common to several diseases in which the first diagnosis is of a rare or obscure disease, when the truth is a more mundane disorder. The term was popularised by Scrubs. Derived from the axiom "When you hear hoofbeats, think 'horses', not 'zebras'.
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