English Explanatory Dictionary

Friedreich's ataxia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An inherited disease in which reduced expression of frataxin causes progressive damage to the nervous system.

Word forms

Friedreich's ataxia

Etymology

Named after the German physician Nikolaus Friedreich, who first described it in the 1860s.

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