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Have you ever found yourself sitting in your doctor’s room listening to him or her rambling off medical terminology and you have absolutely no idea what you are suffering from?

“You are suffering from Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia,” he says in a concerned tone.

“What? I am suffering from a rare condition that turns my spine into a growing tree?!” you wonder panicky. 

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