Reiter

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reiter \Rei"ter\ (r?"t?r), n. [G., rider.]
     A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth
     centuries.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Reiter
       n : German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as
           Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that
           causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969) [syn: {Hans Conrad
           Julius Reiter}]