Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Josef Gerstmann, Ernst Sträussler and Ilya Scheinker, the Austrian physicians who first described it in the mid-1930s.
Noun
[edit]Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (uncountable)
- A very rare, usually familial, fatal neurodegenerative disease, classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.