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great imitator en · NOUN

Any of various medical conditions whose non-specific symptoms can lead to confusion with other diseases.
- Syphilis is a wily infection. Its symptoms come and go and can look like a lot of other ailments, leading doctors to dub it “the great imitator.” 2024 April 26, Brenda Goodman, “Doctors seeing more syphilis patients with unusual and severe symptoms, study shows”, in CNN:

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