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Pick out the correct option from the given options to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
If you are a doctor, one of the greatest honours to which you can aspire is to have a nightmarish disease named after you. ---- Eponyms bring color, tradition and culture to medicine and also provide a useful short hand.(A) Hundreds of so-called eponyms dot the medical text books, enshrining the name of a man or a woman who became the first to identify some horrible ailment, describe symptoms or devise a new diagnostic test.(B) But the time-honoured practice is under threat, judging by a fierce debate in the August 2007 issue of the British Medical Journal.(C) Names, especially when it comes to obscure conditions or procedures, can cause confusion and are often historically untruthful, argue some of the anti-eponymists.
If you are a doctor, one of the greatest honours to which you can aspire is to have a nightmarish disease named after you. ---- Eponyms bring color, tradition and culture to medicine and also provide a useful short hand.(A) Hundreds of so-called eponyms dot the medical text books, enshrining the name of a man or a woman who became the first to identify some horrible ailment, describe symptoms or devise a new diagnostic test.(B) But the time-honoured practice is under threat, judging by a fierce debate in the August 2007 issue of the British Medical Journal.(C) Names, especially when it comes to obscure conditions or procedures, can cause confusion and are often historically untruthful, argue some of the anti-eponymists.
Answer: Option B
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Sentence A follows the first sentence as it tells us what this practice of naming a disease after a person is called (i.e.) eponym. And the last sentence highlights on the importance of using such eponyms. Hence the given two sentences along with sentence A forms a logical paragraph. Sentences B and C express the idea of the anti-eponymists and their debate with the pro-eponymists which is not necessary in this context.
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