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RAYNAUD'S PHENOMENON
(Maurice Raynaud, French physician, 1834-1881) intermittentbilateral attacks of ischaemia of the fingers or toes and sometimes of the ears or nose, marked by severe pallor and often accompanied by paraesthesia and pain, it is brought on characteristically by cool or emotional stimuli and relieved by heat and is due to an underlying malady or anatomical abnormality. When the condition is idiopathic or primary it is termed Raynaud's disease.
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