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Bekhterev's disease

Bekhterev's disease noun: ankylosing spondylitis.

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

Forms of Bekhterev's disease

alternative formBechterew's disease

Origin of Bekhterev's disease

Named after Russian neurologist Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927).

Questions about Bekhterev's disease

What does Bekhterev's disease mean?
Bekhterev's disease means ankylosing spondylitis.
What part of speech is Bekhterev's disease?
Bekhterev's disease is a noun.

Words near Bekhterev's disease in the dictionary

  1. Bekesbourne
  2. Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne
  3. bekeshe
  4. bekhor
  5. Bekhterev
  6. Bekhterev's disease
  7. Bekhterev's mixture
  8. Beki
  9. Bekian
  10. Bekians
  11. bekilted

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