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Named after Josef Gerstmann, Ernst Sträussler and Ilya Scheinker, the Austrian physicians who first described it in the mid-1930s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome
Today it means: A very rare, usually familial, fatal neurodegenerative disease, classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Full definition →