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This week's question: An exasperated mother in China suffered a heart attack after repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — attempting to help her 9-year-old understand his math homework; she was rushed to the hospital and subsequently recovered. Please come up with a medical term to describe a homework-induced health crisis that a parent might suffer.

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THE WINNER: "Arrhythmetic"

Cork Marcheschi, Pacifica, California

SECOND PLACE: "Fibromyalgebra"

Ken Kellam III, Dallas

THIRD PLACE: "Low-grade fever"

Michael H. Keedy, Alamogordo, New Mexico

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Stress fractions"

Thomas Mistele, Flemington, New Jersey

"Flashcardiac arrest"

Corinne Duerkop, Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin

"A B C-eizure"

Robert Theriault, Longview, Washington

"Reading, Writing, Arrhythmia"

Catherine Pomiecko, Natick, Massachusetts

"Common Core-onary"

Barb Leonard, Warrenville, Illinois

"Triggermometry"

Megan McLachlan, Appleton, Wisconsin

"Strife of pi"

Robert Taub, Tacoma, Washington

"Irritable vowel syndrome"

Ivan Kershner, Salem, South Carolina

"A-B-C-D-E-K-G"

Jim Collins, Huntington, Indiani

"Historionics"

Barbara Farkas, Chicago

"The fear of all sums"

Ernie Hanson, Madison, Wisconsin

"Dead poets anxiety"

Paul McFadden, Hampton, New Hampshire