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tuberous sclerosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English

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Name composed of the Latin tuber (swelling) and the Greek skleros (hard), referring to the pathological finding of thick, firm, and pale gyri, called "tubers", in the brains of patients post mortem, first described by Désiré-Magloire Bourneville in 1880.

Bourneville disease epiloia tuberous sclerosis complex Bourneville's disease Bourneville–Pringle disease

What does tuberous sclerosis mean?: A rare disease that causes benign tumors to grow in the human brain, kidneys, heart, liver, eyes, lungs and skin, caused by a mutation in the genes for the tumor growth suppressor proteins hamartin and tuberin.
Where does tuberous sclerosis come from?: Name composed of the Latin tuber (swelling) and the Greek skleros (hard), referring to the pathological finding of thick, firm, and pale gyri, called "tubers", in the brains of patients post mortem, first described by Désiré-Magloire Bourneville in 1880.

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