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Whipple's disease

Whipple's disease proper noun: a rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, primarily causing malabsorption but also affecting other parts of the body.

Proper noun

Whipple's disease

  1. A rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, primarily causing malabsorption but also affecting other parts of the body.

Origin of Whipple's disease

First described by George Hoyt Whipple in 1907.

Questions about Whipple's disease

What does Whipple's disease mean?
Whipple's disease means a rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, primarily causing malabsorption but also affecting other parts of the body.
What part of speech is Whipple's disease?
Whipple's disease is a proper noun.

Words near Whipple's disease in the dictionary

  1. Whipple procedures
  2. Whipple shield
  3. Whipple shields
  4. whipple tree
  5. whipple trees
  6. Whipple's disease
  7. whipple-tree
  8. whipple-trees
  9. Whipples
  10. whippletree
  11. whippletrees

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