Word: hepatolenticular
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...technical name of the disorder is hepatolenticular degeneration, a mouthful that has moved physicians to call it Wilson's disease, after the doctor who first described it. But by any name it is still one of the most mysterious and devastating defects in the body's complex chemistry. It can be inherited from outwardly healthy parents and involves the metabolism of minute amounts of copper. As recently as 1960, medical textbooks stated: "The course of the disease is inexorably downhill if untreated." Most baffling is the fact that the inherited defect may either produce severe illness within...
Only 39 years old, Dr. Uzman was one of the country's foremost neurologists. His most important work led to the determination of the cause of Wilson's disease, or hepatolenticular degeneration. This is a genetic desease involving cirrhosis of the liver (progressive destruction of the cells), a smoky brownish ring around the corner of the eye, and a progressive degeneration of part of the brain known as the lenticular nucleus, resulting in tremors and rigidity of the body...
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