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- noun Any of a group of
neurocutaneous disorders of thecentral nervous system causinglesions on theskin andeye .
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The term, from the Greek φακός, phakos, "spot, lens" and the suffix -osis, was introduced by Jan van der Hoeve in 1920, before the distinct genetic basis of each of these diseases was understood.
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