Meanings
alternative Bechterew's disease
- dateduncountablemedicineAnkylosing 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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Named after Russian neurologist Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech Bechtěrevova choroba
- Bechtěrevova chorobadisease
Dutch ziekte van Bechterew, spondylitis ankylopoetica
- ziekte van Bechterewdisease
- spondylitis ankylopoeticadisease
Finnish selkärankareuma, Bechterewin tauti
- selkärankareumadisease
- Bechterewin tautidisease
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