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Carrion’s disease
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Carrion’s disease
Car·ri·on's dis·ease [ kárree ənz di zz ]


noun 
Definition:
 
med 
Same as  bartonellosis
[Early 20th century. After Daniel Carrión, Peruvian medical student who died from the disease after being injected with it in a medical study]
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