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Milroy's disease, n. Path.|ˈmɪlrɔɪz dɪˈziːz|
[The name of William Forsyth Milroy (1855–1942), American physician, who described the disease in 1892 (N.Y. Med. Jrnl. LVI. 505).]
A hereditary condition characterized by lymphoedema of one or more of the extremities, usually both lower legs.
1909W. Osler in Osler & McCrae Syst. Med. VI. xxviii. 654 Certain persons are born with a special susceptibility to exudative skin lesions. There are families all the members of which present these reactions to particular substances; there are families some members of which are liable to attacks of local œdema, a peculiarity which has been traced through six generations; and lastly, there is an hereditary œdema of the legs (Milroy's disease) which has probably nothing to do with the forms under consideration. Ibid. 661 (heading) Hereditary œdema of the legs (Milroy's disease). [1928W. F. Milroy in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 20 Oct. 1172/2 The condition now under consideration was first designated by my name by Sir William Osler, in his work on the practice of medicine.] 1966Surgery LX. 1098/1 Only a few cases actually qualify as Milroy's disease under the original four points. 1984Tighe & Davies Pathology (ed. 4) xiii. 116 The most likely clinical examples occur..as a result of congenital absence of lymphatics (Milroy's disease). |