English Explanatory Dictionary

Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A very rare, usually familial, fatal neurodegenerative disease, classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

Word forms

Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome

Etymology

Named after Josef Gerstmann, Ernst Sträussler and Ilya Scheinker, the Austrian physicians who first described it in the mid-1930s.

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