Maffucci
/maˈfuːtʃi/ /məˈfuːtʃi/Medicine
noun
Attributive and in the genitive. Designating a rare congenital disorder characterized by the presence of multiple enchondromas and soft tissue haemangiomas, most commonly of the extremities; especially in Maffucci's syndrome.
Origin
1940s. From the name of Angelo Maffucci, Italian physician who described the syndrome in 1881.
- electromotion
- electromotive
- electromotive force
- electromotively
- electromotive series
- electromotivity
- electromotograph
- electromotor
- electro-muscular
- electro-musical
- electromyogram
- electromyograph
- electromyographic
- electromyographically
- electromyography
- electron
- electron acceptor
- electron affinity
- electronarcosis
- electronarcotic
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- electron camera
- electron cloud
- electron-deficient
- electron-dense