Meanings
nounNiemann-Pick disease (uncountable)
- uncountablemedicineAny of a group of fatal inherited metabolic disorders associated with sphingomyelin accumulation in the central nervous system.
Origin
Described by Albert Niemann in 1914 and by Ludwig Pick in the 1930s.
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