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thugyi (iou) and Erdheim disease (medicine)


thugyi (iou)



thugyi noun. M19.
[Burmese.]
In Myanmar (Burma), the headman of a village.

Erdheim disease (medicine)


Erdheim disease -->
cystic medial necrosis


Loss of elastic and muscle fibres in the aortic media, with accumulation of mucopolysaccharide, sometimes in cystlike spaces between the fibres; a disease of unknown cause, which may be inherited and which predisposes to dissecting aneurysms.

Synonym: Erdheim disease, medionecrosis aortae idiopathica cystica, medionecrosis of the aorta, mucoid medial degeneration.