Charcot
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Charcot may refer to:
- Jean-Martin Charcot - French neurologist
Charcot's name is associated with many diseases and conditions including
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- Charcot's artery (lenticulostriate artery)
- Charcot's joint (diabetic arthropathy)
- Charcot's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the most-common subtype of motor neurone disease- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (peroneal muscular atrophy)
- Charcot Wilbrand syndrome (visual agnosia and loss of ability to revisualise images)
- Charcot's intermittent hepatic fever (intermittent pain, intermittent fever, intermittent jaundice, and loss of weight)
- Charcot-Bouchard aneurysms (tiny aneurysms of the penetrating branches of middle cerebral artery in hypertensives)
- Charcot's triad
- Charcot arthropathy
- Charcot-Leyden crystals due to eosinophils white blood cells lysis in cases of allergic diseases.
- Jean-Baptiste Charcot - French explorer and physician, son of Jean-Martin Charcot.
- Charcot Island -an island of Antarctica named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot
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