Mallory-Weiss syndrome
Meaning
Proper Noun
- gastroesophageal laceration, with bleeding from tears in the mucosa at the junction of the stomach and esophagus, sometimes caused by severe alcoholism
Origin
- The condition was first described in 1929 by G. Kenneth Mallory and Soma Weiss.
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