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Schilder's disease Path.|ˈʃɪldəz| [The name of Paul Ferdinand Schilder (1886–1940), U.S. neurologist and psychiatrist, who described the disease in 1912 (Zeitschr. f. die gesammte Neurol. u. Psychiatrie X. 1–60).] A disease characterized by degeneration of the neurones of the brain, esp. in the occipitotemporal lobes, leading to blindness, deafness, and death.
1940Hinzie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 475/1 Schilder's disease or encephalitis periaxialis diffusa, is a slowly progressive degenerative disease of the brain occurring mainly in children and young people. 1961R. D. Baker Essent. Path. xxii. 599 Diffuse cerebral sclerosis, one form of which has been called Schilder's disease, is a widespread demyelination of the cerebral hemispheres alone. 1966Wright & Symmers Systemic Path. II. xxxiv. 1284/2 A feature of Schilder's disease is that the subarcuate fibres are spared, as in some cases of multiple sclerosis. |