neurofibromatosis
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- n autosomal dominant disease characterized by numerous neurofibromas and by spots on the skin and often by developmental abnormalities
- The affliction is neurofibromatosis, a terrifying and, so far, incurable neurological disorder usually accompanied by varying degrees of deformity.
- Though neurofibromatosis is still poorly understood, medical researchers have recently been focusing on a blood protein that is unusually high in some victims of the disease.
- You just found the gene for neurofibromatosis, often confused with Elephant Man's disease.