Bechterew's disease

Noun

Bekhterev's disease (uncountable)

1. (dated) Ankylosing spondylitis.
   • At the time when I was spending many weeks every year with the Fitzpatricks as Gerald's guest, said Austerlitz, Evelyn was perhaps in his mid-fifties, but was so crippled by Bechterew's disease that he looked like an old man, and could walk only with the greatest difficulty, bending right over.2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 122