Hutchinson
(ˈhʌtʃɪnsən)
The name of Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913), English surgeon, used in the possessive (and also attrib.) to designate various diseases, diagnostic signs, etc., as Hutchinson('s) tooth (the condition of having) a permanent incisor tooth, often in the middle of the upper set, with a narrow, notched biting edge, found chiefly in children with congenital syphilis; usu. pl.; Hutchinson('s) triad, a rare triad comprising Hutchinson's teeth, interstitial keratitis, and eighth-nerve deafness, diagnostic of congenital syphilis.
| 1890 Billings Med. Dict. I. 656/1 Hutchinson's teeth. 1906 Dental Rev. Jan. 12, I have seen several cases of typical Hutchinson teeth that were certainly in no way connected with a syphilitic taint. 1908 Practitioner Jan. 5 He had well-marked Hutchinson's teeth. 1908 E. L. Keyes Syphilis xxxvi. 533 Hutchinson's triad, consisting of dental, ocular, and auditory stigmata. 1949 H. T. Karsner Human Path. (ed. 7) xvi. 547/2 The Hutchinson tooth has normal width at the gum line with sides tapering to an incisal edge of diminished mesiodistal dimensions. 1968 A. J. Rook Textbk. Dermatol. I. xxii. 704/2 Interstitial keratitis, Hutchinson's teeth and eighth-nerve deafness form ‘Hutchinson's triad’. |