English Explanatory Dictionary

Marchiafava-Bignami disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A progressive neurological disease of alcohol use disorder or malnutrition, characterized by corpus callosum demyelination and necrosis and subsequent atrophy.

Word forms

Marchiafava-Bignami disease

Etymology

First described in 1903 by the Italian pathologists Amico Bignami and Ettore Marchiafava.

Synonyms

MBD
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