ZOLLINGER-ELLISON SYNDROME


Meaning of ZOLLINGER-ELLISON SYNDROME in English

/zol"ing euhr el"euh seuhn/ , Pathol.

a condition in which a gastrin-secreting tumor of the pancreas or small intestine causes excessive secretion of gastric juice, leading to intractable peptic ulcers.

[ after Robert Milton Zollinger (born 1903) and Edwin Homer Ellison (1918-1970), U.S. surgeons, who described it in 1955 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .