Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Va·quez's disease Pronunciation:
vä-'kez-&z- Function:
noun : POLYCYTHEMIA VERA Vaáquez /vo-kez,/ Louis Henri (1860–1936), French physician. Vaquez developed an interest in the diseases of the heartand circulation early in his career and eventually became a leading clinical cardiologist of his time. He is famous for describing polycythemia vera in 1892. (An equally famous description of thisentity was written later by Sir William Osler in 1903.)
