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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chronic autoimmune disease occurring mostly in older women, characterized by keratoconjunctivitis, dryness of mucous membranes, telangiectasias on the face, and enlargement of both parotid glands. It is often associated with rheumatoid arthritis, Raynaud's phenomenon, and dental caries.
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- noun An
autoimmune disorder in which immune cells attack and destroy theexocrine glands that producetears andsaliva .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren, (1899–1986), Swedish ophthalmologist.]
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After the Swedish ophthalmologist Henrik Sjögren (1899-1986), who first described it.
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