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Dupuytren|dypɥitrɛn| The name of Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French surgeon, used in the possessive to designate certain conditions observed or appliances, etc., invented by him. Dupuytren's contraction or contracture, a painless disorder of the fibrous tissue of the palm that leads to fixed flexion of one or more fingers and affects chiefly old people; Dupuytren's fracture, fracture of the fibula just above the malleolus; Dupuytren's method (see quot. 1887); Dupuytren's paste (see quot. 1886); Dupuytren's splint, a splint to prevent eversion in Pott's fracture.
1876O. W. Madelung (title) The causes and operative treatment of Dupuytren's finger contraction. 1880Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 June 919/1 (title) Dupuytren's fracture of the fibula. 1883Holmes & Hulke Syst. Surg. (ed. 3) I. 1093 Dupuytren's splint is often used, and is good when properly applied. 1886Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 7 Dupuytren's paste was made of from six to ten parts by weight of arsenic, and one hundred of calomel. Ibid. III. 159 Dupuytren's Finger-contraction.—This deformity is dependent chiefly upon chronic disease and contraction of the palmar aponeurosis. 1887Ibid. V. 197 Dupuytren's Method. A method of amputating at the shoulder-joint. 1895Treves's Syst. Surg. I. 870 Dupuytren's splint..a ‘long splint’ in miniature, should be padded with increasing thickness from the knee down to the ankle. 1908Practitioner Feb. 279 Treatment of Dupuytren's contraction by thiosinamine. 1947E. B. Krumbhaar tr. Castiglioni's Hist. Med. (ed. 2) xix. 713 Baron Guillaume Dupuytren... His descriptions of varicose aneurysms, of fracture of the lower end of the fibula (Dupuytren's fracture, 1819) and the characteristic flexion of one or more fingers due to contraction of the palmar fascia (Dupuytren's contraction,..) are classic. 1966Wright & Symmers Systemic Path. II. xxxviii. 1447/2 Fibromatosis of the plantar fascia of the feet is much less frequent than Dupuytren's contracture. |