Dupuytren's contracture

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Etymology[edit]

Named after Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, the surgeon who described a corrective operation for the affliction in the Lancet in 1831.

Noun[edit]

Dupuytren's contracture (uncountable)

  1. A fixed flexion contracture of the hand where the fingers bend towards the palm and cannot be fully extended (straightened). It is an inherited proliferative connective tissue disorder which involves the palmar fascia of the hand.
    Synonyms: Dupuytren's disease, morbus Dupuytren, palmar fibromatosis, Viking disease
    Hypernym: fibromatosis

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