Etymology

Niemann-Pick disease

Today it means: Any of a group of fatal inherited metabolic disorders associated with sphingomyelin accumulation in the central nervous system. Full definition →

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Described by Albert Niemann in 1914 and by Ludwig Pick in the 1930s.

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