Dupuytren's contracture
/dʊːˈpwiːtrəns
/(also Dupuytren's disease)
noun [mass noun] Medicine
A condition in which there is fixed forward curvature of one or more fingers, caused by the development of a fibrous connection between the finger tendons and the skin of the palm.These include carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, Dupuytren's contracture, frozen shoulder, spondylosis of the neck and cramp of the hand (writer's cramp)....
- Skin defects in the palm are often left to heal by secondary intention after surgery for Dupuytren's disease, with excellent results.
- She was immediately attracted by the texture of his skin, and by his ‘elegant, long, aristocratic’ hands, which were later deformed by Dupuytren's disease.
Origin
Late 19th century: named after Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), the French surgeon who first described the condition.
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