The K-Zone: Biophysical data tables: eponyms

TermMeaning
Addison's diseasePrimary adrenocortical insufficiency
Alzheimer's diseaseSenile dementia
Berger's diseaseIgA nephropathy
Bornholm diseaseEpidermic myalgia
Budd-Chiari syndromeObstruction of the hepatic vein
Buerger's diseaseThromboangiitis obliterans
Caisson diseaseDecompression sickness
Chargas' diseaseAmerican trypanosomiasis
Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndromePeroneal muscular atrophy
Christmas diseaseFactor IX deficiency
Churg-Strauss syndromeEosinophilic granulomatous vasculitis
Conn's syndromePrimary hyperaldosteronism
Chrohn's diseaseRegional enteritis
Cushing's diseasePituitary dependent adrenocortical hypoplasia
Devic's diseaseNeuromyelitis optica
Dressler's syndromePost myocardial infarction syndrome
Eaton-Lambert syndromeParaneoplastic myasthenia
Erb's paralysisInjury of the upper root of the brachial plexus
Fabry's diseaseGalactosidase-A deficiency
Friedreich's ataxiaSpinocerebellar ataxia
Gardner's syndromeA type of familial adenomatous polyposis
Gelineau's syndromeNarcolepsy
Grave's diseaseAutoimmune thyrotoxicosis
Guiallain-Barre syndromePost-viral polyneuropathy
Hanot's diseasePrimary biliary cirrhosis
Hansen's diseaseLeprosy
Kallman's diseaseHypogonadotrophic hypogonadism
Klumpke's paralysisInjury of the lower root of the brachial plexus
Loeffler's syndromeSimple pulmonary eosophinilia
McArdle's syndromeType V glycogen storage disease
Marchiafava-Michell syndromeParoxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
Mayer-Betz syndromeParoxismal myoglobinuria
Osler-Weber-Rendu syndromeHereditary haemorrhagic telangectasia
Pickwickian syndromeObstructive sleep apnoea
Pott's diseaseSpinal tuberculosis
Sheehan's diseasePostpartum hypopituitarism
Sjogren's syndromeKeratoconjunctivitis sicca
Tietze's syndromeIdeopathic costochondrtitis
Von Reckinghausen's diseaseNeurofibromatosis
Wilson's diseaseHepato-lenticular degeneration
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndromeAbberant atrio-ventricular pre-excitation

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