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Marchiafava-Bignami disease
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English
Etymology
First described in 1903 by the Italian pathologists Amico Bignami and Ettore Marchiafava.
Noun
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A progressive neurological disease of alcohol use disorder or malnutrition, characterized by corpus callosum demyelination and necrosis and subsequent atrophy.
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