Word.ws English Dictionary

Batten disease

Batten disease proper noun: a rare, fatal autosomal-recessive neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood.

Proper noun

Batten disease

  1. A rare, fatal autosomal-recessive neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood.

Origin of Batten disease

Named after the British pediatrician Frederick Batten, who first described it in 1903.

Questions about Batten disease

What does Batten disease mean?
Batten disease means a rare, fatal autosomal-recessive neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood.
What part of speech is Batten disease?
Batten disease is a proper noun.

Words near Batten disease in the dictionary

  1. battelly
  2. battels
  3. battement
  4. battements
  5. batten
  6. Batten disease
  7. batten down
  8. batten down the hatches
  9. battenberg
  10. Battenberg cake
  11. Battenberg cakes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Batten disease (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Batten disease.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/batten_disease. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.