Etymology

Grover's disease

Today it means: A skin condition that causes an itchy rash of small, reddish bumps and blisters mostly on the chest, back, and trunk. Full definition →

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The story

Named after American dermatopathologist Ralph Wier Grover (1920–2008) who first reported this condition in 1975 while working at Franklin Hospital in New York.

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