Erdheim-Chester disease
English
Etymology
The first case was reported by the American pathologist William Chester in 1930, during his visit to the Austrian pathologist Jakob Erdheim in Vienna.
Proper noun
- (medicine) polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis, a rare disease characterized by the abnormal multiplication of histiocytes.
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