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Buerger's disease

[ bur-gerz ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. an inflammatory and obliterative disease of the blood vessels of the legs and feet causing numbness and tingling, often leading to phlebitis and gangrene: most common in cigarette smokers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Buerger's disease1

Named after Leo Buerger (1879–1943), U.S. physician, who described it in 1908

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