reiter's disease

1. 1.

   an inflammatory syndrome (etiology unknown) predominantly in males; characterized by arthritis and conjunctivitis and urethritis

   SynonymsReiter's syndrome

   Broadersyndrome

Questions about reiter's disease

What does reiter's disease mean?

reiter's disease means "an inflammatory syndrome (etiology unknown) predominantly in males; characterized by arthritis and conjunctivitis and urethritis".

What is another word for reiter's disease?

Close synonyms include Reiter's syndrome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reiter's disease a common word?

reiter's disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.