medical mystery
Puzzling health case
A medical mystery is an illness or condition that defies diagnosis or explanation.
Doctors use the term when symptoms don't match known diseases or when standard tests reveal nothing: After months of appointments, her fatigue remained a medical mystery.
The phrase also describes cases in popular media where unusual symptoms drive the narrative, as in television dramas or true-crime documentaries.
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- rare diseaseAilment with few patients
- rareSeldom found or seen
- bafflingImpossible to understand
unexplained · autopsy · puzzle · detective · House · illness · strange · undiagnosed · second opinion · cryptic · fever · clues · pathology · enigma · syndrome · obscure · case · cold case
- medical fictiondiagnosis, symptoms, cure, terminal illness, recovery arc
- Medical TVER, Grey's Anatomy, House, Scrubs, General Hospital