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Niemann-Pick cell(medicine)
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coccus(dictionary)
coccus(encyclopedia)
Coccus(medicine)

Niemann-Pick disease (iou) and Weichselbaum's coccus (medicine)


Niemann-Pick disease (iou)



Niemann-Pick disease noun phr. Also Niemann-Pick's disease. E20.
[Albert Nieman (1880-1921) and Ludwig Pick (1868-c 1944), German physicians.]
Medicine. A rare inherited metabolic disorder, usu. fatal in childhood, characterized by the accumulation in the body cells of the lipid sphingomyelin.

Weichselbaum's coccus (medicine)


Weichselbaum's coccus -->
neisseria meningitidis


A species of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria found in cerebrospinal fluid as the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis (meningitis, meningococcal) as well as in venereal discharges and blood.