Whipple's disease

English

Etymology

First described by George Hoyt Whipple in 1907.

Proper noun

Whipple's disease

  1. A rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, primarily causing malabsorption but also affecting other parts of the body.

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