Main Entry: Char·cot–Ma·rie–Tooth disease Pronunciation: (")shär-"kO-m&-"rE-'tüth- Function: noun :PERONEAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY P. Marie —see MARIE-STR{UUML}MPELL DISEASE Tooth,Howard Henry(1856–1925), British physician.Tooth enjoyed a varied career as a consulting physician to a British hospital for the paralyzed and epileptic, as an examiner in medicine at Cambridge and Durham universities, and as physician toBritish troops in Malta. In 1886 he published a description of peroneal muscular atrophy. In that same year an independent description of the disease was published jointly by Jean-Martin Charcot andPierre Marie.
