Most people hear the names of medical conditions every day without giving them a second thought, but those names shape how we understand illness, how doctors diagnose it, and how society treats the people who live with it. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition affecting an estimated 170 million women worldwide, has now been renamed after researchers concluded the term no longer accurately reflected the condition itself. The updated name—polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)—