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Cheadle's disease

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  • noun pathology The disease scurvy, especially in infants.

Etymologies

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Named after Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle who described it.

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Barlow's disease
  2. Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
  3. Moeller's disease
  4. Möller-Barlow disease
  5. scorbutus
  6. scurvy

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