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Whipple's Disease
Lipodystrophy, Intestinal | Whipple Disease | Disease, Whipple | Disease, Whipple' | s | Intestinal Lipodystrophies | Intestinal Lipodystrophy | Lipodystrophies, Intestinal | Whipples Disease
A disease marked by diarrhea with fatty stools, arthritis, emaciation, and loss of strength, and attended with deposits of fat in the intestinal lymphatic tissue. Rod-shaped bacteria-like forms are present, presumed to be infectious, although no organism has been consistently isolated from patient specimens. (Dorland, 27th ed; from Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992). |
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