Spielmeyer-Vogt disease
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Related to Spielmeyer-Vogt disease: Batten disease, Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Spiel·mey·er-Vogt dis·ease
(shpēl'mī-ĕr vōkt),cerebral sphingolipidosis, late juvenile type.
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Spielmeyer-Vogt disease
(shpēl′mī′ər-fōkt′)n.
A type of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with onset usually between ages four and eight.
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Spielmeyer-Vogt disease
(sphēl′mī-ĕr-fōgt′) [Walter Spielmeyer, Ger. neurologist, 1879–1935; Oskar Vogt, Ger. neurologist, 1870–1959]
A juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, that is, one in which neurodegenerative symptoms first appear in childhood.
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Spielmeyer,
Walter, German neurologist, 1879-1935.Spielmeyer acute swelling - a form of degeneration of nerve cells in which the cell body and its processes swell and stain palely and diffusely.
Spielmeyer-Stock disease - Synonym(s): Batten disease
Spielmeyer-Vogt disease - Synonym(s): Batten disease
Vogt-Spielmeyer disease - Synonym(s): Batten disease
Vogt,
Heinrich, German neurologist, 1875–.Spielmeyer-Vogt disease - Synonym(s): Batten disease
Vogt-Spielmeyer disease - Synonym(s): Batten disease
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