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Named after John Fielding Crigler (1919–2018), American pediatrician, and Victor Assad Najjar (1914–2002), Lebanese-American pediatrician.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crigler-Najjar syndrome
Today it means: A rare hereditary disease characterized by a near complete inability of the liver to process bilirubin, which leads to death by kernicterus if untreated. Full definition →