English Explanatory Dictionary

Niemann-Pick disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a group of fatal inherited metabolic disorders associated with sphingomyelin accumulation in the central nervous system.

Word forms

Niemann-Pick disease

Etymology

Described by Albert Niemann in 1914 and by Ludwig Pick in the 1930s.

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