Bekhterev's disease
English
Alternative forms
- Bechterew's disease
Etymology
Named after Russian neurologist Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927).
Noun
Bekhterev's disease (uncountable)
- (dated, pathology) Ankylosing spondylitis.
- 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 122:
- 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, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 122:
Translations
disease
|