See Also: polychondritis, relapsing(medicine)
relapsing polychondritis(medicine)
Relapsing polychondritis(health)
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chronic atrophic polychondritis(medicine)
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relapsing fever(medicine)
relapsing malaria(medicine)
relapsing perichondritis(medicine)

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.