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Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease

noun Char·cot–Ma·rie–Tooth disease \(ˌ)shär-ˌkō-mə-ˌrē-ˈtüth-\

Medical Definition of CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE

Biographical Note for CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE

P. Marie —see marie-strümpell disease
Tooth, Howard Henry (1856–1925), British physician. Tooth enjoyed a varied career as a consulting physician to a British hospital for the paralyzed and epileptic, as an examiner in medicine at Cambridge and Durham universities, and as physician to British troops in Malta. In 1886 he published a description of peroneal muscular atrophy. In that same year an independent description of the disease was published jointly by Jean-Martin Charcot and Pierre Marie.

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