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Alexandr Nicolaevich Chernogubow
Russian physician.
Associated eponyms:
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Biography:
Alexandr Nicolaevich Chernogubow was the district physician to the city of Serdobsk, Penza region, in the second half of the nineteenth century. He was the father of the dermatologist Nikolai Alexandrovich Chernogubow (born 1883).
We thank professor Leonid P. Churilov for information submitted.
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