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wbs - Definition:
(Source: MedicineNet)
The syndrome is named for the American pediatric pathologist J. Bruce Beckwith (1933-) and the German pediatrician Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann (1915-). In 1964, Wiedemann reported a familial form of omphalocele with macroglossia in Germany and then in 1969, Beckwith described a similar series of patients in the US. Wiedemann coined the term EMG syndrome to describe the combination of exomphalos, macroglossia, and gigantism. In time, the condition was renamed Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. It is also sometimes called the Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome (WBS) because Wiedemann recognized the syndrome before Beckwith.
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