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Mallory-Weiss syndrome

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The condition was first described in 1929 by G. Kenneth Mallory and Soma Weiss.

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Mallory-Weiss syndrome (uncountable)

  1. (gastroenterology, pathology) Gastoesophageal laceration, with bleeding from tears in the mucosa at the junction of the stomach and esophagus, sometimes caused by severe alcoholism.
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