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Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease

Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease noun: a rare medical condition in which the umbilical or paraumbilical veins are distended, with an abdominal wall bruit (the Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit) and palpable thrill, portal hypertension with splenomegaly, hypersplenism and oesophageal varices, with a normal or small liver.

Noun

Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease (uncountable)

  1. A rare medical condition in which the umbilical or paraumbilical veins are distended, with an abdominal wall bruit (the Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit) and palpable thrill, portal hypertension with splenomegaly, hypersplenism and oesophageal varices, with a normal or small liver.

Synonyms of Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease

Origin of Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease

First described by Pégot in 1833, and then by Jean Cruveilhier (1835) and Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1907).

Questions about Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease

What does Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease mean?
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease means a rare medical condition in which the umbilical or paraumbilical veins are distended, with an abdominal wall bruit (the Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit) and palpable thrill, portal hypertension with splenomegaly, hypersplenism and oesophageal varices, with a normal or small liver.
What part of speech is Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease?
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease is a noun.

Words near Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease in the dictionary

  1. crutters
  2. crutting
  3. cruve
  4. Cruveilhier
  5. Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit
  6. Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease
  7. Cruveilhier-Baumgarten syndrome
  8. cruves
  9. Cruwys
  10. Cruwys Morchard
  11. crux

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