cerebroretinal degeneration

  • 1cerebromacular degeneration — (CMD), cerebroretinal degeneration 1. degeneration of brain cells and the macula luteae, as in Tay Sachs disease. 2. any lipidosis with cerebral lesions and degeneration of the retinal macula. 3. any form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis …

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  • 2Walther Spielmeyer — (April 23, 1879 February 6, 1935) was a German neuropathologist who was a native of Dessau. He studied medicine at the University of Halle under Eduard Hitzig (1838 1907), and in 1906 went to Freiburg, where he was an assistant to Alfred Hoche… …

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  • 3Vogt-Spielmeyer disease — the juvenile form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with onset between 5 and 10 years of age, characterized by rapid cerebroretinal degeneration, massive loss of brain substance, excessive neuronal storage of lipofuscin, and death within 10 to 15 …

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  • 4syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …

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  • 5List of diseases (C) — A list of diseases in the English wikipedia.C* C syndrome * C1 esterase deficiency (angioedema)CaCac Cal* Cacchi Ricci disease * CACH syndrome * Cafe au lait spots syndrome * Caffey disease * CAHMR syndrome * Calcinosis cutis (see also CREST… …

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