reiter Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969)
    Hans Conrad Julius Reiter.

WordNet


Rei"ter noun
Etymology
G., rider.
Definitions
  1. A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Webster 1913