- Sjцgren syndrome
- Sjц·gren syndrome (shurґgren) [Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjцgren, Swedish ophthalmologist, 1899–1986] see under syndrome.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Sjцgren syndrome
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