See Also: chronic atrophic polychondritis(medicine)
chronic atrophic thyroiditis(medicine)
chronic atrophic vulvitis(medicine)
polychondritis(medicine)
relapsing polychondritis(medicine)
polychondritis, relapsing(medicine)
Relapsing polychondritis(health)
Atrophic(medicine)
atrophic heterochromia(medicine)
atrophic kidney(medicine)

noctuary (iou) and chronic atrophic polychondritis (medicine)


noctuary (iou)



noctuary noun.rare. E18-E20.
[from Latin noctu by night (from noct-, nox night) + -ARY1, after DIARY noun.]
An account of what happens during a particular night or particular nights.

chronic atrophic polychondritis (medicine)


chronic atrophic polychondritis -->
relapsing polychondritis


A degenerative disease of cartilage producing a bizarre form of arthritis, with collapse of the ears, the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and the tracheobronchial tree; death may occur from chronic infection or suffocation because of loss of stability in the tracheobronchial tree of autosomal origin.

Synonym: chronic atrophic polychondritis, generalised chondromalacia, Meyenburg's disease, Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome, relapsing perichondritis, systemic chondromalacia, von Meyenburg's disease.