NEUROFIBROMATOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurofibromatosis mean? 

• NEUROFIBROMATOSIS (noun)
  The noun NEUROFIBROMATOSIS has 1 sense:

1. autosomal dominant disease characterized by numerous neurofibromas and by spots on the skin and often by developmental abnormalities

  Familiarity information: NEUROFIBROMATOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROFIBROMATOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Autosomal dominant disease characterized by numerous neurofibromas and by spots on the skin and often by developmental abnormalities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

neurofibromatosis; von Recklinghausen's disease

Hypernyms ("neurofibromatosis" is a kind of...):

monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)

autosomal dominant disease; autosomal dominant disorder (a disease caused by a dominant mutant gene on an autosome)

 Context examples 

Also called acoustic neurofibromatosis and NF2.

(Neurofibromatosis type 2, NCI Dictionary)

NF1 mutations are associated with neurofibromatosis type I.

(Neurofibromin, NCI Thesaurus)

Neurofibromatosis type 2 is associated with the presence of schwannomas, meningiomas, and gliomas.

(Neurofibromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called neurofibromatosis type 2 and NF2.

(Acoustic neurofibromatosis, NCI Dictionary)

There are three types of neurofibromatosis.

(Neurofibromatosis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Mutations in this allele are associated with type I neurofibromatosis, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia and Watson syndrome.

(NF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called acoustic neurofibromatosis and neurofibromatosis type 2.

(NF2, NCI Dictionary)

Representative examples include neurofibromatosis, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, and Sturge-Weber syndrome.

(Overgrowth syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, and Sturge-Weber syndrome.

(Phakomatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Type 1 (peripheral) neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen's disease), is the most common type of neurofibromatosis.

(Neurofibromatosis type 1, NCI Thesaurus)