Steinert Path.
(ˈʃtaɪnət)
[The name of H. G. W. Steinert (b. 1875), German physician, who described the disease in 1909 (Deutsche Zeitschr. f. Nervenheilkunde XXXVII. 58).]
Steinert's disease = myotonia atrophica s.v. myotonia 2 b.
| 1932 Index Medicus XII. 429/1 (heading) Cachetic form of myotonia atrophica (Steinert's disease). 1948 F. B. Carlsen tr. Thomasen's Myotonia vii. 94 Steinert's disease invariably set in in later life, generally between the ages of twenty and thirty. 1963 [see myotonia 2 b]. |