Cheadle's disease

English

Etymology

Named after Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle who described it.

Noun

Cheadle's disease (uncountable)

1. (pathology) The disease scurvy, especially in infants.

Synonyms

• Barlow's disease
• Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
• Moeller's disease
• Möller-Barlow disease
• scorbutus
• scurvy

References

• scurvy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Who Named It? last accessed 28-Mar-2007