See Also: niemann-pick disease(medicine)
Niemann-Pick disease(dictionary)
Niemann-Pick cell(medicine)
Niemann disease(medicine)
Disease, Pick(health)
Pick's disease(dictionary)
disease, pick's(medicine)
Pick's disease(medicine)
focal metastatic disease(medicine)
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focal reaction (medicine) and Niemann-Pick disease (iou)


focal reaction (medicine)


focal reaction


A reaction which occurs at the point of entrance of an infecting organism or of an injection, as in the Arthus phenomenon.

Synonym: local reaction.


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.