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Dupuytren's contracture

Pronunciation: /dʊːˈpwiːtrəns/

(also Dupuytren's disease)
Definition of Dupuytren's contracture

noun

[mass noun] Medicine
  • a condition in which there is fixed forward curvature of one or more fingers, caused by the development of a fibrous connection between the finger tendons and the skin of the palm.

Origin:

late 19th century: named after Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), the French surgeon who first described the condition

Dupuytren's contracture in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Dupuytren's contracture in the US English dictionary