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Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
[ zol-ing-er-el-uh-suhn ]
/ ˈzɒl ɪŋ ərˈɛl ə sən /
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noun Pathology.
a condition in which a gastrin-secreting tumor of the pancreas or small intestine causes excessive secretion of gastric juice, leading to intractable peptic ulcers.
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Origin of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
Named after Robert Milton Zollinger (1903–92) and Edwin Homer Ellison (1918–70), U.S. surgeons, who described it in 1955
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