Reiter's syndrome
[ rahy-terz ]
nounPathology.
a disease of unknown cause, occurring primarily in adult males, marked by urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis.
Origin of Reiter's syndrome
1After Hans Conrad Julius Reiter (1881–1969), German bacteriologist, who described it in 1916
- Also called Reiter's disease .
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