English Explanatory Dictionary

Erdheim-Chester disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis, a rare disease characterized by the abnormal multiplication of histiocytes.

Word forms

Erdheim-Chester disease

Etymology

The first case was reported by the American pathologist William Chester in 1930, during his visit to the Austrian pathologist Jakob Erdheim in Vienna.

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