Mallory-Weiss syndrome
English edit
Etymology edit
The condition was first described in 1929 by G. Kenneth Mallory and Soma Weiss.
Proper noun edit
Mallory-Weiss syndrome (uncountable)
- (gastroenterology, pathology) Gastoesophageal laceration, with bleeding from tears in the mucosa at the junction of the stomach and esophagus, sometimes caused by severe alcoholism.