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Zebra is a slang medical term for an obscure and unlikely diagnosis from ordinary symptoms.
It derives from the aphorism "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras",[1] which was probably coined by Dr. Theodore Woodward, a former professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine.citation needed
A similar term for an obscure and rare diagnosis in medicine is fascinoma.
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