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'.
The term was popularised by Scrubs.
Derived from the axiom "When you hear hoofbeats, think 'horses', not 'zebras'.
If a patient presents with vomiting, dairrhoea, and fever, West Nile Virus is a zebra; they're more likely to have enteropathogenic E. coli infection.
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when a woman is having a baby, she poops on the table, and the baby slides out on the poop creating a stripe going down their back
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Get the zebra mug.A fart(n) or to fart(v) Usually, a zepha is particularly atrocious and could be considered a crime against humanity.
a zephyr is a light breeze making a zepha a fart
Example: Dude, Steve let a zepha in the elevator and gagged everyone inside. He made babies cry and a nun ask God why he had forsaken her!
Example: Dude, Steve let a zepha in the elevator and gagged everyone inside. He made babies cry and a nun ask God why he had forsaken her!
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Get the Zebra mug.Someone who is half black and half white and thinks they are only black, forgetting about there other half.
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