Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Sweet's syndrome Pronunciation:
'swEts- Function:
noun : a disease that occurs especially in middle-aged women, that is characterized by redraised often painful patches on the skin, fever, and neutrophilia in the peripheral blood, that responds to treatment with corticosteroids but not antibiotics, and that is of unknown cause but issometimes associated with an underlying malignant disorder called also
acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis Sweet,
Robert Douglas (fl 1964), Britishdermatologist. Sweet published his description of acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis in 1964.
