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* There also is a Literature/HarryPotter do over fanfic where Harry starts calling himself Lord Xerosis. Xerosis is a skin condition, and it sends Voldemort into a fit of laughter.

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* Lin Carter's ''Imaginary Worlds'' contains an essay in worldbuilding in which he suggests naming fantasy characters by taking names from mythology and disguising them a bit. By way of example, he takes the god Hermes Trismegistus and the prophet Zoroaster, blends their names together, and ends up with... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_zoster Herpes Zoster]].

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* Creator/WoodyAllen's play ''God'' uses this for the ThemeNaming of its main characters: Diabetes, principal actor of the ShowWithinAShow; Hepatitis, its writer; Trichinosis, inventor of the DeusExMachina; and Bursitis, the unfortunate actor chosen to play Zeus.

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* In the same vein, Cletus the Yokel from ''TheSimpsons'' has a morbidly obese cousin named Diabetty and one of his daughters is called Rubella.

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* There are parents who choose to misspell the perfectly-normal "Lisa" to "Lyssa", thinking that it's more elegant. Little do they know that "Lyssa" is an actual word in Greek that means "madness" (in fact, there's an obscure Ancient Greek goddess with the name, though she's JustFollowingOrders) and is used in the present day as a translation of...rabies.

A common source of ParodyNames, and target of WhoNamesTheirKidDude. Not to be confused with TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed. IndexSyndrome is an index of trope names that sound like diseases.

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* In ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'', the origin of Syphile's name back when the comic was a roleplay drawn by the author was the word Syphilis.

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* Wordnik has a list of [[http://www.wordnik.com/lists/diseases-that-make-lovely-baby-girls-names Diseases That Make Lovely Girls' Names]].
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0gAUvWTto this]] parody of Cinderella, entitled Salmonella, the main characters are germs and all have names like this, including Salmonella, E. Albert Coli, Typhi, Prince Polio, the Pox Sisters: Chicken and Small, Enteria, Sally Shingles, Rubella, Scarlet Scabies, and Marvin Mumps.

* Mr. Croup (and possibly little Anaesthesia) from Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}.''

* Thrax in ''OsmosisJones''. Justified, as he is a virus.

* In Finnish mythology (as recorded in TheKalevala), the goddess Loviatar, a blind and evil daughter of the death-god Tuoni, had nine sons fathered by either the wind or the sea-monster Iku-Turso. She named them Colic, Pleurisy, Fever, Ulcer, Plague, Consumption, Gout, Sterility, and Cancer.

* Demencia (the Spanish spelling of Dementia) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}''.

* Demencia (the Spanish spelling of Dementia) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}.

* Demencia (the Spanish spelling of Dementia) from ''WesternAnimation/Villainous''.

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* ''FanFic/MyImmortal'': Ebony Dark'ness '''Dementia''' Raven Way.
* There also is a Literature/HarryPotter do over fanfic where Harry starts calling himself Lord Xerosis. Xerosis is a skin condition, and it sends Voldemort into a fit of laughter.

* Tomainia (which might as well be spelled "Ptomainia") and Bacteria, expies of, respectively, Germany and Italy in ''Film/TheGreatDictator''. Tomainia is ruled by Adenoid Hynkel, by the way.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Lysa Arryn (nee Tully) is only one letter off from Lyssa, meaning "madness" or in modern usage "rabies." At first it might just come off as SpellMyNameWithAnAS, but given Lysa's [[{{Yandere}} character]] it was likely deliberate.

** Another stuttering example that ''did'' hold up to modern times is "Blaise", which is derived from Latin "Blasius", ultimately from the Latin adjective "blaesus", which means...you guessed it. [[Literature/HarryPotter By the way, it's a masculine name (at least how it supposed to be)]].

* [[RebelliousPrincess Bernadette]]'s real name in ''Manga/CrossboneGundam'' can be read as Tetanus ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS though most fan translations romanize it as Tetanith). It's little wonder she prefers being called Bernadette even after the crew find out who she really is.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/KnightyKnightBugs" has one of KingArthur's knights named Sir Osis of Liver.

* Not a person, but in ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'', the entire civilization the characters inhabit is called Malaria.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Knighty Knight Bugs" has one of KingArthur's knights named Sir Osis of the Liver.

* There [[DiscreditedTrope used to be]] a whole genre of jokes/UrbanLegends wherein a FunnyForeigner or black person would punch above their presumed intellectual weight and give their child a name like Eczema. The UnfortunateImplications and racism made these jokes unappealing to most people now.