Dupuytren's contracture
/djʊˈpwiːtrəns/(亦作 Dupuytren's disease)
noun
mass noun
- Medicine a condition in which there is fixed forward curvature of one or more fingers, caused by the development of a fibrous connection between the finger tendons and the skin of the palm【医】杜普伊特伦氏挛缩（掌挛缩病）。
词源
late 19th cent.: named after Baron Guillaume Dupuytren （1777-1835）, the French surgeon who first described the condition.