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Fröhlich|ˈfrøːlɪç|
Also Froelich.
The name of Alfred Fröhlich, Austrian neurologist (1871–1953), used attrib. and in the possessive to designate a syndrome characterized esp. by obesity and sexual infantilism and caused by a tumour in the pituitary gland.
1909Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 24 July 255/1 Delayed adolescence of the Fröhlich type. 1912H. Cushing Pituitary Body 337 (index) Fröhlich's syndrome. 1964A. Grollman Clin. Endocrinol. vi. 89/2 The chief symptoms observed in Fröhlich's syndrome are obesity, faulty skeletal development and genital hypoplasia. |