See Also: relapsing polychondritis(medicine)
Relapsing polychondritis(health)
polychondritis, relapsing(medicine)
polychondritis(medicine)
chronic atrophic polychondritis(medicine)
sinking(2)(dictionary)
sinking(1)(dictionary)
sinking fund(encyclopedia)
sinking fund(dictionary)
Sinking fund(finance)

SINKING FUND (law) and relapsing polychondritis (medicine)


SINKING FUND (law)


SINKING FUND. A fund arising from particular taxes, imposts, or duties, which is appropriated towards the payment of the interest due on a public which is appropriated towards the payment of the interest due on a public loan and for the gradual payment of the principal. See Funding System. loan and for the gradual payment of the principal. See Funding System.

relapsing polychondritis (medicine)


relapsing polychondritis


A degenerative disease of cartilage producing a bizarre form of arthritis, with collapse of the ears, the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and the tracheobronchial tree; death may occur from chronic infection or suffocation because of loss of stability in the tracheobronchial tree of autosomal origin.

Synonym: chronic atrophic polychondritis, generalised chondromalacia, Meyenburg's disease, Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome, relapsing perichondritis, systemic chondromalacia, von Meyenburg's disease.