Sturge-Weber syndrome

English

Etymology

Named after William Allen Sturge and Frederick Parkes Weber.

Noun

Sturge-Weber syndrome (uncountable)

1. A rare type of angiophakomatosis characterized by abnormal blood vessels on the surface of the brain, and often associated with port-wine stains of the face, glaucoma, seizures, mental retardation, and ipsilateral leptomeningeal angioma.

Synonyms

• encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis

Hypernyms

• phakomatosis
  • angiophakomatosis

Coordinate terms

• von Hippel–Lindau disease