WILSON'S DISEASE


Meaning of WILSON'S DISEASE in English

Pathol.

a rare hereditary disease in which copper accumulates in the brain and liver, gradually leading to tremors, muscular rigidity, kidney malfunction, and cognitive disturbances: marked by Kayser-Fleischer rings.

[ named after Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878-1936), British neurologist, who described it in 1912 ]

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