Pott's disease

Meaning

Noun

A presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects the spine, a kind of tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints.

Origin

After Percivall Pott (1714–1788), a London surgeon who trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

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