Etymology

Hunter syndrome

Today it means: A lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficient (or absent) enzyme, iduronate-2-sulfatase. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Scottish-born Canadian physician Charles A. Hunter (1873–1955), who first described it in 1917.

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