Diallinas-Amalric syndrome

Alternative eponyms

Related people

A syndrome of partial deafness (50-60 %); minor troubles of vision with normal visual fields, dark vision, and color vision.

Description

A syndrome of partial deafness (50-60 %); minor troubles of vision with normal visual fields, dark vision, and color vision. Acquired type present from birth; inherited type, onset at 5 years. Both sexes affected. Etiology unknown. Familial disease with unclear heredity; probably an autosomal recessive trait.

Bibliography

  • N. P. Diallinas:
    Les altérations oculaires chez les sourds-muets.
    Journal de genetique humaine, Geneva, 1959, 8: 225-262.
  • P. M. Amalric:
    Nouveau type de degénérescence tapetoretinienne au cours de la sourdimutié.
    Bull Soc Med Paris, 1960, 73: 196-212.
    [A new type of tapetoretinal degeneration in the course of deaf-mutism]

What is an eponym?

An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.

What is Whonamedit?

Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.

Disclaimer:

Whonamedit? does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.