Sturge-Weber syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rare type of angiophakomatosis characterized by abnormal blood vessels on the surface of the brain, and often associated with port-wine stains of the face, glaucoma, seizures, mental retardation, and ipsilateral leptomeningeal angioma.

Word forms

Sturge-Weber syndrome

Etymology

Named after William Allen Sturge and Frederick Parkes Weber.

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