Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Brill's disease Pronunciation:
'brilz- Function:
noun : an acute infectious disease milder than epidemic typhus but caused by the same rickettsia
Brill,#
/'bril,/ Nathan Edwin (1860–1925), American physician. In 1910, after studying 221 cases, Brill published the first description of the disease nowknown as Brill's disease.
