von Willebrand's disease
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English
Etymology
Named after Erik Adolf von Willebrand, a Finnish physician who first described the disease in 1926.
Noun
von Willebrand's disease (uncountable)
- (medicine) An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity.
- "Von Willebrand's disease is an autosomally transmitted disorder of hemostasis caused by a deficiency of or defect in the von Willebrand factor in the blood, a protein required for adherence of platelets to an injured vessel wall." - D. Green. Von Willebrand's disease. Postgraduate Medicine. 1980 Mar;67(3):241-5, 248.
Usage notes
Modern editors often prefer the non-possessive form of medical eponyms such as von Willebrand disease.