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Change log entry 75189
Processed by: richwarm (2022-07-13 10:12:52 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 71081 - submitted by 'haton' >>
added a capital L (Lyme is a place name)
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Editor: If it's two words, such as "Lyme disease" or "Tourette syndrome", it's fine to use a capital letter for the first of the two words of the name, but if it's a single word, such as "theileriosis" (named after Sir Arnold Theiler) then we do not capitalize it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/theileriosis

Words like "theileriosis" and "pasteurization" are not capitalized because, although they are *derived* from proper names, these words are not themselves proper names.

Another example: "Parkinson's disease" is also called "parkinsonism".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parkinsonism

I'm aware that this style rule is, unfortunately, not applied consistently in CC-CEDICT.
Diff:
# - 萊姆病 莱姆病 [lai2 mu3 bing4] /Lyme disease/
# + 萊姆病 莱姆病 [Lai2 mu3 bing4] /Lyme disease/
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