SINCE 1828
Verner-Morrison syndrome
noun
Ver·ner-Mor·ri·son syndrome
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Medical Definition of Verner-Morrison syndrome
: a syndrome characterized especially by severe watery diarrhea and hypokalemia that is often due to an excessive secretion of vasoactive intestinal peptide from a vipoma especially of the pancreas
— called also pancreatic cholera, WDHA syndrome
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