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AMAUROTIQUE [2 records]

Record 1 2012-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

An inherited degenerative disease characterized by neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions which stain positively for ceroid and lipofuscin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
OBS

Forme juvénile de l'idiotie amaurotique familiale. L'idiotie amaurotique familiale désigne un groupe d’affections neurologiques associant une atteinte rétinienne entraînant la cécité et de graves perturbations du développement intellectuel.

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

A red circular area (the choroid) surrounded by gray-white retina, seen through the fovea centralis of the eye in the infantile and sometimes in the late infantile form of amaurotic familial idiocy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
DEF

Tay-Sachs(maladie de) : Forme infantile de l'idiotie amaurotique familiale caractérisée par une tache rouge cerise sur la macula, avec ou sans atrophie optique.

Spanish

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