Sturge-Weber syndrome

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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.

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