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Dercum's disease

Dercum's disease noun: adiposis dolorosa.

Noun

Dercum's disease (uncountable)

  1. adiposis dolorosa

Origin of Dercum's disease

Named after the American doctor Francis Xavier Dercum, who described it in 1892.

Questions about Dercum's disease

What does Dercum's disease mean?
Dercum's disease means adiposis dolorosa.
What part of speech is Dercum's disease?
Dercum's disease is a noun.

Words near Dercum's disease in the dictionary

  1. Derbyshire neck
  2. Derbyshire spar
  3. Derbyshire spars
  4. Dercole
  5. Dercoles
  6. Dercum's disease
  7. derdeba
  8. derdebas
  9. dere
  10. dere's
  11. derealisation

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