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== Critique of the term == The name post-exertional malaise was introduced by the 1994 Fukuda criteria and had no prior medical meaning attached to it.<ref name="Chu2018" /> While in the scientific literature, the term has become the standard to describe the relapses ME/CFS patients suffer after exertion, patients argue that it trivializes their experience. The term malaise after all refers to "a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or unease whose exact cause is difficult to identify"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/malaise | title = Definition of malaise in English by Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries {{!}} English|access-date=2018-10-13}}</ref>. Doctor of [http://sph.berkeley.edu/ Public Health at Berkely], [[David Tuller]], calls post-exertional malaise a "complete misnomer" arguing what ME/CFS patients experience "is much closer to a serious crash or relapse than a Victorian fainting spell."<ref name="Tuller20111123">{{Cite web|url=http://www.virology.ws/2011/11/23/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-the-cdc-a-long-tangled-tale/ | last = Tuller | first = David | authorlink = David Tuller | title = Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: A Long, Tangled Tale|website=[[Virology blog]]|language=en-US | date = 2011-11-23|access-date=2018-10-10}}</ref> ME/CFS patients usually use the abbreviation PEM or the term "[[crash]]" to describe their relapses.
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