Landry's paralysis

Landry's paralysis
Lan·dry's paralysis 'lan-drēz- n GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME
Lan·dry län-drē Jean-Baptiste-Octave (1826-1865)
French physician. Landry published a treatise on diseases of the nervous system in 1855. Four years later he produced a treatise on paralyses and described Landry's paralysis.

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