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Attributive and in the genitive, especially in "Rendu–Osler–Weber disease". Designating the disorder hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia.
1930s; earliest use found in Archives of Internal Medicine. From the names of Henri J. L. M. Rendu, French physician, William Osler, and Frederick P. Weber, British physician, each of whom independently described the disease.