English Explanatory Dictionary

Urbach-Wiethe disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A very rare recessive genetic disorder with varying symptoms that may include a hoarse voice, lesions and scarring on the skin, easily damaged skin with poor wound healing, dry, wrinkly skin, and beading of the papules around the eyelids.

Word forms

Urbach-Wiethe disease

Etymology

First officially reported in 1929 by Erich Urbach and Camillo Wiethe.

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