Etymology

Lenz microphthalmia syndrome

Today it means: A very rare inherited disorder characterized by abnormal smallness of one or both eyes, sometimes with droopy eyelids, resulting in visual impairment or blindness. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Widukind Lenz, a German geneticist and dysmorphologist.

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