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Thomsen disease

Thomsen disease noun: autosomal-dominant myotonia congenita.

Noun

Thomsen disease (uncountable)

  1. autosomal-dominant myotonia congenita

Origin of Thomsen disease

Named after the Danish/German physician Asmus Julius Thomas Thomsen (1815–1896), who himself had the disease and who described it in 1876.

Questions about Thomsen disease

What does Thomsen disease mean?
Thomsen disease means autosomal-dominant myotonia congenita.
What part of speech is Thomsen disease?
Thomsen disease is a noun.

Words near Thomsen disease in the dictionary

  1. Thompsonian
  2. Thompsons
  3. Thompsonville
  4. Thoms
  5. Thomsen
  6. Thomsen disease
  7. Thomsen graph
  8. Thomsen graphs
  9. Thomsen's disease
  10. thomsenolite
  11. Thomsett

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