English Explanatory Dictionary

Sandifer syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A paediatric medical disorder characterised by gastrointestinal symptoms and associated neurological features.

Word forms

Sandifer syndrome

Etymology

First described in 1964 by Austrian neurologist Marcel Kinsbourne, who named the syndrome after his mentor, British neurologist Paul Sandifer, who had cared for the patients involved.

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