单词 | Waterhouse-Friderichsen |
释义 | Waterhouse-Friderichsen Path.|ˈwɔːtəhaʊs-ˈfriːdərɪksən| The names of Rupert Waterhouse (1873–1958), English physician, and Carl Friderichsen (b. 1886), Danish physician, used attrib. to designate a fulminating meningococcal septicæmia with hæmorrhagic destruction of the adrenal cortex that occurs chiefly in children and is fatal within hours if not promptly treated.
1936Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 May 1715/2 The disease now known as the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome was recognised as an entity by Little in 1901. 1974J. D. Maynard in R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery xii. 256 Precipitating factors [of adrenal insufficiency] are septicaemia, meningococcal meningitis (Waterhouse Friderichsen syndrome..), severe abdominal trauma, [etc.]. |

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