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Takayasu Path.
(‖ takaˈjasu)
[The name of Michishige Takayasu (1872–1938), Japanese ophthalmologist, who described the disease in 1908.]
Takayasu's disease: a chronic arteritis leading to obstruction of blood-flow, esp. in the vessels arising from the aortic arch; pulseless disease.
1952Amer. Heart Jrnl. XLIV. 629 Pulseless or Takayasu's disease is considered by Japanese ophthalmologists to be a rare but definite clinical entity. 1969Edington & Gilles Path. in Tropics viii. 335 At one time Takayasu's disease was thought to affect only young females and the pathological lesions to be restricted to the aortic arch and its major branches. 1978Central African Jrnl. Med. XXIV 144/2 Takayasu's disease (pulseless disease) is a disease of unknown aetiology first described in Japan. |