Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome

noun

The disease scurvy, especially in infants.

Meanings

nounCheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineThe disease scurvy, especially in infants.

    Synonyms: Barlow's disease, Cheadle's disease, Moeller's disease, Möller-Barlow disease, scorbutus, scurvy

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Origin

Named after Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle, Sir Thomas Barlow and Julius Otto Ludwig Möller, who described it.

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