| Sottas, Jules | <person> French neurologist, 1866-1943. See: Dejerine-Sottas disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Dejerine-Sottas disease | A familial type of demyelinating sensorimotor polyneuropathy that begins in early childhood and is slowly progressive; clinically characterised by foot pain and paresthesias, followed by symmetrical weakness and wasting of the distal limbs; one of the causes of stork legs; patients are wheelchair bound at an early age; peripheral nerves are palpably enlarged and non-tender; pathologically, onion bulb formation is seen in the nerves: whorls of overlapping, intertwined Schwann cell processes that encircle bare axons; usually autosomal recessive inheritance. Synonym: Dejerine's disease, progressive hypertrophic polyneuropathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Assezat, Jules | <person> French anthropologist, 1832-1876. See: Assezat's triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baillarger, Jules | <person> French neurologist, 1809-1890. See: Baillarger's bands, Baillarger's lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bordet, Jules | <person> Belgian bacteriologist and Nobel laureate, 1870-1961. See: Bordetella, Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar, Bordet-Gengou bacillus, Bordet-Gengou phenomenon, Bordet and Gengou reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Marey, Etienne Jules | <person> French physiologist, 1830-1904. See: Marey's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cloquet, Jules | <person> French anatomist, 1790-1883. See: Cloquet's canal, Cloquet's hernia, Cloquet's septum, node of Cloquet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Duboscq, Jules | <person> French optician, 1817-1886. See: Duboscq's colourimeter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Tinel, Jules | <person> French neurologist, 1879-1952. See: Tinel's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Tissot, Jules | <person> Early 20th century French physiologist. See: Tissot spirometer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Freund, Jules | <person> U.S. Bacteriologist, 1891-1960. See: Freund's complete adjuvant, Freund's incomplete adjuvant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luys, Jules | <person> French physician, 1828-1897. See: Luys' body, centre median de Luys, corpus luysi, nucleus of Luys. (05 Mar 2000) |