meniere : Idioms & Phrases
meniere's disease
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noun a disease of the inner ear characterized by episodes of dizziness and tinnitus and progressive hearing loss (usually unilateral)
WordNet
Mé`nière's" dis*ease"
(Also<
- Meniere's disease
- Ménière's disease
)
Definitions
(Med.) A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoördination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.
Webster 1913
prosper meniere
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noun French otologist who first described a form of vertigo now known as Meniere's disease and identified the semicircular canals as the site of the lesion (1799-1862)
Meniere.
