Pott's disease
English
Etymology
After Percivall Pott (1714–1788), a London surgeon who trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Noun
- A presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects the spine, a kind of tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints.
Translations
type of tuberculosis
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