In a recent correspondence, Drs Baer and Hammitt [1] suggested that the terminology of “Sjögren’s syndrome” be changed to “Sjögren’s disease”. The main argument in favor of calling it a disease is that this condition is now very well characterized and identified within the group of connective tissue diseases, with autoimmune pathogenesis. In a very insightful article [2], Dr J. G. Scadding commented about semantic problems in medicine, and stated that there were four main classes of characteristics by which diseases could be defined: 1- the clinical description (syndrome); 2- a disorder of structure with recognisable morbid-anatomical change.

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干燥病，而不是干燥病

在最近的通信中，Baer 和 Hammitt 博士 [1] 建议将“干燥综合征”的术语改为“干燥综合征”。支持将其称为疾病的主要论据是，这种疾病现在在结缔组织疾病组中得到了很好的表征和鉴定，具有自身免疫发病机制。在一篇非常有见地的文章 [2] 中，JG Scadding 博士评论了医学中的语义问题，并指出可以定义疾病的四大类特征： 1- 临床描述（综合征）；2-具有可识别的病态解剖变化的结构紊乱。