Buerger's disease

[ bur-gerz ]
/ ˈbɜr gərz /

noun Pathology.

an inflammatory and obliterative disease of the blood vessels of the legs and feet causing numbness and tingling, often leading to phlebitis and gangrene: most common in cigarette smokers.

Origin of Buerger's disease

named after Leo Buerger (1879–1943), U.S. physician, who described it in 1908

Medical definitions for buerger's disease

Buerger's disease
[ bûrgərz, bur- ]

n.

thromboangiitis obliterans