waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome

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   syndrome associated with bacterial meningitis; marked by sudden high fever and skin discoloration and petechiae with hemorrhage into the adrenal glands and cardiovascular collapse

   Broadersyndrome

Questions about waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome

What does waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome mean?

waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome means "syndrome associated with bacterial meningitis; marked by sudden high fever and skin discoloration and petechiae with hemorrhage into the adrenal glands and cardiovascular collapse".

Is waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome a common word?

waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome 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.