Cheadle's disease
English
Etymology
Named after Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle who described it.
Noun
Cheadle's disease (uncountable)
- (medicine) The disease scurvy, especially in infants.
Synonyms
- Barlow's disease
- Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome
- Moeller's disease
- Möller-Barlow disease
- scorbutus
- scurvy
References
scurvy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- Who Named It? last accessed 28-Mar-2007