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Named after two doctors, Edvard Ehlers and Henri-Alexandre Danlos, who identified the syndrome at the turn of the 20th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Today it means: Any of a group of inherited connective tissue disorders caused by a defect in the synthesis of collagen, and resulting in abnormally elastic skin, joints, muscles, etc. Full definition →