Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome

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Etymology

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Named after Josef Gerstmann, Ernst Sträussler and Ilya Scheinker, the Austrian physicians who first described it in the mid-1930s.

Noun

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Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (uncountable)

  1. A very rare, usually familial, fatal neurodegenerative disease, classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.