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Sturge-Weber syndrome en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after William Allen Sturge and Frederick Parkes Weber.

Meanings

(uncountable) A rare type of angiophakomatosis characterized by abnormal blood vessels on the surface of the brain, and often associated with port-wine stains of the face, glaucoma, seizures, mental retardation, and ipsilateral leptomeningeal angioma.

Coordinates

von Hippel–Lindau disease

Hypernyms

angiophakomatosis · phakomatosis

Synonyms

encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis

wikipedia: Frederick Parkes Weber · wikipedia: William Allen Sturge