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refsum's disease

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ref-sum's dis-ease
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A peroxisomal neurological disease that results in the malformation of myelin sheaths around nerve cells.

Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Sigvald Bernhard Refsum (1907–1991), Norwegian neurologist .

Usage

Inflected Forms

Refsum disease (alternative)

Synonyms

heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis

Questions

What does refsum's disease mean?
A peroxisomal neurological disease that results in the malformation of myelin sheaths around nerve cells.
Where does refsum's disease come from?
Named after Sigvald Bernhard Refsum (1907–1991), Norwegian neurologist .

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