The story
Acronym of vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X chromosome, autoinflammatory, somatic, after the core features of the disorder. First discovered in October 2020, with the report from The New England Journal of Medicine and identified by a multidisciplinary team of scientists (see quotations below).
First known use, by meaning
- from 2020 An autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in the body and mostly affects men.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.