thomsen disease

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What does thomsen disease mean?

autosomal-dominant myotonia congenita

Where does thomsen disease come from?

Named after the Danish/German physician Asmus Julius Thomas Thomsen (1815–1896), who himself had the disease and who described it in 1876.

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