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noun
A dark ring surrounding the iris of the eye, indicative of various liver diseases.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
a pigmented ring at the outer edge of the cornea of the eye; a symptom of Wilson's disease
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: symptom
History
Named after Dr. Bernhard Kayser and Dr. Bruno Fleischer, the German doctors who first described them in 1902 and 1903.
