Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Weil's disease Pronunciation:
'vI(&)lz-, 'wI(&)lz- Function:
noun : a leptospirosis that is characterized by chills, fever, muscle pain,and hepatitis manifested by more or less severe jaundice and that is caused by a spirochete of the genus
Leptospira (
L. interrogans serotype
icterohaemorrhagiae) called also
leptospiral jaundice Weil /'vI(&)l,/ Adolf (1848–1916), German physician. Weil held professorships in Berlin and later in Tartu, Estonia. In 1886 hepublished a classic description of a type of leptospirosis characterized by jaundice, nephritis, muscular pain, fever, and enlargement of the spleen and liver. The disease had been described originallyby an English physician some 23 years before.
[vahylz, wahylz] 
