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Gaucher's disease

[ goh-sheyz ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism that causes spleen and liver enlargement, abnormal fragility and pain of the bones, and progressive neurologic disturbances, leading to early death.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Gaucher's disease1

After Philippe C. Ernest Gaucher (1854–1918), French physician, who described it

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