Sjögren'ssyndrome

Sjö·gren's syndrome (shōʹgrənz, shœʹ-) n.

A chronic inflammation of the lachrymal and salivary glands, often accompanied by rheumatoid arthritis and the presence of autoantibodies in the blood, occurring chiefly among women.

  [After Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren (born 1899), Swedish ophthalmologist.]

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