refsum's disease

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Definition of refsum's disease in English English dictionary

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

Hyphenation

refsum's dis·ease

Synonyms

refsum-thiébaut disease, refsum-thiébaut-klenk-kahlke disease, heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis

Etymology

() After Norwegian neurologist Sigvald Bernhard Refsum (1907-1991).