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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]] |website = |footnotes = |box_width = }} '''Harry Raymond Eastlack''' (1933-1973) died from Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a rare and poorly understood disease in which the bone repair mechanism runs out of control, turning other tissue like muscles and tendons into bone. Eastlack permitted his skeleton to be preserved |
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fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
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just a few years ago. All I can remember is that the name was a three-letter acronym, but after some googling it appears that what you're looking for is fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), only about 200 cases of which have ever been reported. —User:David Wahler|David Wahler User_talk:David Wahler| (talk) 21:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC) ::That's the one. Thanks. & |