Bekhterev's disease

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Etymology

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

Noun

Bekhterev's disease (uncountable)

  1. (dated, medicine) 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.

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