See Also: Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome(dictionary)
Friderichsen-Waterhouse syndrome(medicine)
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome(medicine)
Friderichsen, Carl(medicine)
Waterhouse(tourism)
TD Waterhouse Bank(finance)
Waterhouse, Rupert(medicine)
Celiac syndrome (also spelled coeliac syndrome)(health)
Syndrome, TAR(medicine)
XO syndrome(medicine)

Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (iou)



Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome noun phr. M20.
[from Rupert Waterhouse (1873-1958), English physician + Carl Friderichsen (1886-1979), Danish physician.]
Medicine. A fulminating meningococcal septicaemia with haemorrhagic destruction of the adrenal cortex, which occurs chiefly in children and can be fatal within hours.