| Marchiafava-Bignami d. |
progressive degeneration of the corpus callosum characterized by progressive intellectual deterioration, emotional disturbances, confusion, hallucinations, tremor, rigidity, and convulsions. It is a very rare disorder affecting chiefly middle-aged male alcoholics; also seen in patients with nutritional deficiency states.
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| Marchiafava-Bignami disease |
see under disease.
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| Marchiafava-Micheli disease (syndrome) |
paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
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| Marchiafava-Micheli s. |
paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
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| Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome |
[E. Marchiafava, It. pathologist, 1847?1935; A. Bignami, It. physician, 1862?1929] Damage to the white matter of the brain, with dementia, resulting from chronic alcoholism, esp. excessive wine consumption.
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