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Hutchinson|ˈhʌtʃɪnsən| The name of Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913), English surgeon, used in the possessive (and also attrib.) to designate various diseases, diagnostic signs, etc., as Hutchinson('s) tooth (the condition of having) a permanent incisor tooth, often in the middle of the upper set, with a narrow, notched biting edge, found chiefly in children with congenital syphilis; usu. pl.; Hutchinson('s) triad, a rare triad comprising Hutchinson's teeth, interstitial keratitis, and eighth-nerve deafness, diagnostic of congenital syphilis.
1890Billings Med. Dict. I. 656/1 Hutchinson's teeth. 1906Dental Rev. Jan. 12, I have seen several cases of typical Hutchinson teeth that were certainly in no way connected with a syphilitic taint. 1908Practitioner Jan. 5 He had well-marked Hutchinson's teeth. 1908E. L. Keyes Syphilis xxxvi. 533 Hutchinson's triad, consisting of dental, ocular, and auditory stigmata. 1949H. T. Karsner Human Path. (ed. 7) xvi. 547/2 The Hutchinson tooth has normal width at the gum line with sides tapering to an incisal edge of diminished mesiodistal dimensions. 1968A. J. Rook Textbk. Dermatol. I. xxii. 704/2 Interstitial keratitis, Hutchinson's teeth and eighth-nerve deafness form ‘Hutchinson's triad’. |