“Otto vor dem Gentschenfelde” is one of those old German rural names, that just combines a name with a place. Like maybe a Farmer called Otto had his farm in front of the “Gentschen”-field. Maybe there were a bunch of other Ottos closeby so they had to distinguish.
And then it became a last name for his descendants. While googeling I found an obituary for a guy called Dieter Otto vor dem Gentschenfelde, where Dieter was his first name and Otto was part of his last name.
lol is this true? That’s such a slap in the face 😆
No. The non type is actually a catch all for around 60 other types. It’s a real name though, and it’s known for being unwieldy.
Brutal name, holy…
No but there’s a grain of truth. I’m not a doctor but here’s what I remember from Wikipedia and watching medical dramas.
Hodgkin’s is named after a doctor but its a specific type of lymphoma that makes up something like 10% of all lymphoma cases and usually follows a predictable pattern. I believe it has a higher survival rate than most cancers, especially in younger people.
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma includes every other subtype of lymphoma. I know there are 2 major subsets of subtypes and that there are dozens of subtypes.
non hodgekins have so many subtypes, so its much harder to treat those. also hodgekin lymphoma have specific criteria, like Reed-Sternberg cells
No it’s not true, sadly
Ottolymphoma, easy.
That’s words like “whoosh”, and “pow”, right?
I didn’t know cars could get cancer, but okay.
I thought the recommendation nowadays is that diseases aren’t possessive, so it’s Down Syndrome and Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Why not
I’d argue the same against it that the author does, it makes it very unclear in canes like Grave’s Disease where Grave Disease sounds like a very confusing different thing
Consider a disease by a Dr Chin. Chin Disease vs Chin’s Disease.
Very different things
Those could just be, y’know, exceptions to the rule
Why though? Make it complicated for no reason? Mandate 's
Yeah, I don’t know why people are trying to remove the possessives either. I don’t have a horse in this race
And Alzheimer disease, Crohn disease and Parkinson disease as well I just discovered, thanks!
There are languages in which it absolutely doesn’t work
