peroxisomal neurological disease that results in the malformation of myelin sheaths around nerve cells.' name='description'> Refsum's disease - definition and meaning
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Refsum's disease

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  • noun A peroxisomal neurological disease that results in the malformation of myelin sheaths around nerve cells.

Etymologies

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After Norwegian neurologist Sigvald Bernhard Refsum (1907-1991).

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis
  2. Refsum-Thiébaut disease
  3. Refsum-Thiébaut-Klenk-Kahlke disease

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