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A popular term for an exhaustive list of symptoms, diseases, or aetiologies that share something in common—e.g., differential diagnosis of acute abdomen

laundry list

A popular term for a long list of Sx, diseases, or etiologies that share something in common–eg, differential diagnosis of acute abdomen

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I suspect that Matthias regards the high-spirited romp of "Laundry Lists and Manifestoes" as somewhat less serious, less ballasted with gravitas, than the nostalgically historical "Kedging in Time." But it's a lovely thing that he can pull off two such divergent projects in a single volume, and with such assurance and elan.

Kedging: New Poems

After all, most halfway-decent studio-art graduate students have laundry lists of this-visual-device-equals-that-autobiographical-fact (often that's all their work has going for it).

Jasper Johns: Privileged Information

The approach looked too glib, the literary conceit too forced, the tone too optimistic, and the content too burdened with laundry lists of core technologies, new rules, and business revolutions.

Technotrends: How to Use Technology to Go Beyond Your Competition

Still, we've seen the laundry lists of how to handle the media in a crisis: Establish a news headquarters and appoint a single spokesperson...Tell the truth...Take corrective action...and so on.

Communicating with employees during a time of tragedy

Labels and laundry lists - including this list from Gilbert - don't tell you the beliefs that motivate a person's opinions, the convictions that guide his actions.