Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome
Marchiafava-Bignami disease
A condition that occurs in chronic alcoholics, clinically characterised by progressive neurological disease and histologically characterised by corpus callosum demyelination, necrosis and atrophy.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome
(măr″kē-ă-fă′vă-bē-nyă′mē) [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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