what does Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome mean?
WATERHOUSE-FRIDERICHSEN SYNDROME as NOUN
- Meaning
- syndrome associated with bacterial meningitis
- marked by sudden high fever and skin discoloration and petechiae with hemorrhage into the adrenal glands and cardiovascular collapse
Hypernyms(s) Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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