English Explanatory Dictionary

Fournier gangrene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of necrotizing fasciitis affecting the perineum, most common in elderly men.

Word forms

Fournier gangrene

Etymology

First described by Baurienne in 1764 and named after a French venereologist, Jean Alfred Fournier, following five cases he presented in clinical lectures in 1883.

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