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• Bechterew's disease

Proper noun

Bekhterev's disease

1. (dated, pathology) 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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