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Wil′son's disease′, [Pathol.]
- Pathologya rare hereditary disease in which copper accumulates in the brain and liver, gradually leading to tremors, muscular rigidity, kidney malfunction, and cognitive disturbances: marked by Kayser-Fleischer rings.
- named after Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878–1936), British neurologist, who described it in 1912
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