Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Fröh·lich's syndrome Variants:
or Froeh·lich's syndrome /'frA-liks-, 'fr[OE]-liks-/ also Fröhlichsyndrome Function:
noun : ADIPOSOGENITAL DYSTROPHY Fröhlich /'fr[OE]-lik/,
Alfred (1871–1953), Austrian pharmacologist and neurologist. Fröhlich investigated a wide range of topics bearing on pharmacology and neurologyincluding the influence of various therapeutic agents on the central nervous system, the pathways for visceral pain, the contraction of striated muscle fibers, and the effect of Pituitrin upon theautonomic nervous system. He published his account of the condition now known as Fröhlich's syndrome in 1901.
