Etymology

Sturge-Weber syndrome

Today it means: A rare type of angiophakomatosis characterized by abnormal blood vessels on the surface of the brain, and often associated with port-wine stains of the face, glaucoma, seizures, mental retardation, and ipsilateral leptomeningeal angioma. Full definition →

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The story

Named after William Allen Sturge and Frederick Parkes Weber.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.