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Ondine's Curse - Genetic and Iatrogenic Central Hypoventilation as Diagnostic Options in Forensic Medicine.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2015
Susło Robert, Trnka Jakub, Siewiera Jacek, Drobnik Jarosław
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In the Nordic mythology a man lost his ability to breathe without remembering it after he was cursed by water nymph - referred to as 'Ondine's curse' - and then he died as soon as he fell asleep. Family medicine specialists are familiar with many sleeping disorders that their patients commonly call by the term Ondine's Curse. In medical sciences this term is historically related to the group of conditions that...
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