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