English Explanatory Dictionary

Refsum's disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A peroxisomal neurological disease that results in the malformation of myelin sheaths around nerve cells.

Word forms

Refsum's disease Refsum disease

Etymology

Named after Sigvald Bernhard Refsum (1907–1991), Norwegian neurologist .

Synonyms

heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis
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