Ritter's disease
/ˈrɪtəz dɪˌziːz/Medicine
noun
A form of scalded skin syndrome occurring in newborn infants.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in American Journal of the Medical Sciences. From the genitive of the name of Gottfried Rittervon Rittershain, Bohemian physician, who described the disease in 1878 + disease.
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