Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Car·ri·ón's disease Pronunciation:
"kar-E-'onz- Function:
noun : BARTONELLOSIS Carrión /"kär-E-'On,/ Daniel A. (1850–1885), Peruvian medical student. Carrión allowed himself to beinoculated with the blood of a patient suffering from verruga peruana. He died with the symptoms of Oroya fever, thereby proving the association between the two. Bartonellosis was namedCarrión's disease in his honor by the Peruvian physician Ernesto Odriozola.
