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Erdheim-Chester disease
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Etymology
The first case was reported by the American pathologist William Chester in 1930, during his visit to the Austrian pathologist Jakob Erdheim in Vienna.
Proper noun
en medicine polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis, a rare disease characterized by the abnormal multiplication of histiocytes.
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