Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun waterhouse-friderichsen_syndrome

1 sense of waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome

Sense 1
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome -- (syndrome associated with bacterial meningitis; marked by sudden high fever and skin discoloration and petechiae with hemorrhage into the adrenal glands and cardiovascular collapse)
       => syndrome -- (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)