English Explanatory Dictionary

von Hippel–Lindau disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of angiophakomatosis, caused by certain DNA sequence variants (in the VHL gene).

Word forms

von Hippel–Lindau disease Von Hippel-Lindau disease

Etymology

The German ophthalmologist Eugen von Hippel first described angiomas in the eye in 1904. Arvid Lindau described the angiomas of the cerebellum and spine in 1927.

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