Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
noun
syndrome consisting of intractable peptic ulceration with gastric hypersecretion and hyperacidity
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: a syndrome consisting of fulminating intractable peptic ulcers, gastric hypersecretion and hyperacidity, and hyperplasia of the pancreatic islet cells
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/zol"ing euhr el"euh seuhn/, Pathol.
a condition in which a gastrin-secreting tumor of the pancreas or small intestine causes excessive secretion of gastric juice, leading to intractable peptic ulcers.
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after Robert Milton Zollinger (born 1903) and Edwin Homer Ellison (1918-1970), U.S. surgeons, who described it in 1955]
Useful english dictionary.
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Zollinger - Ellison syndrome — … Useful english dictionary
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