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Erdheim-Chester disease

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Etymology

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The first case was reported by the American pathologist William Chester in 1930, during his visit to the Austrian pathologist Jakob Erdheim in Vienna.

Proper noun

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Erdheim-Chester disease

  1. (medicine) polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis, a rare disease characterized by the abnormal multiplication of histiocytes.