Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome
/marɪˌnɛskəʊ ˈʃəːɡrən ˌsɪndrəʊm/Medicine
noun
A hereditary (autosomal recessive) syndrome characterized by cerebellar ataxia, congenital cataracts, and mental retardation.
Origin
1960s. From the names of Georges Marinesco, Romanian neurologist, and Karl Gustav Torsten Sjögren,, Swedish physician, who both described the syndrome + syndrome. The syndrome was named by A. Franceschetti et al., in Confinia Neurol. 16 274.