Refsum's disease
English
Alternative forms
- Refsum disease
Etymology
Named after Sigvald Bernhard Refsum (1907–1991), Norwegian neurologist .
Noun
Refsum's disease (uncountable)
- (pathology) A peroxisomal neurological disease that results in the malformation of myelin sheaths around nerve cells.
- Synonym: heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis