Meanings
- uncountableA fixed flexion contracture of the hand where the fingers bend towards the palm and cannot be fully extended (straightened). It is an inherited proliferative connective tissue disorder which involves the palmar fascia of the hand.
Synonyms: Dupuytren's disease, morbus Dupuytren, palmar fibromatosis, Viking disease
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA fixed flexion contracture of the hand where the fingers bend towards the palm and cannot be fully extended (straightened). It is an inherited proliferative connective tissue disorder which involves the palmar fascia of the hand.
Origin
Named after Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, the surgeon who described a corrective operation for the affliction in the Lancet in 1831.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish kämmenen kalvokutistuma
- kämmenen kalvokutistumaDupuytren's contracture
French maladie de Dupuytren, contracture de Dupuytren
- maladie de DupuytrenDupuytren's contracture
- contracture de DupuytrenDupuytren's contracture
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