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Amiramim Posted 13 years ago
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Hi everyone ,please answer me it is very urgent

Why do we say Alzheimer's ??what the "s" refers to?
  

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It was first described by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and was named after him. org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease

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It was first described by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and was named after him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease
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amiramimWhy do we say Alzheimer's ??what the "s" refers to?
Strictly speaking 's never refers to anything. It's a grammatical marker showing one of several possible relationships between one word and another.

Alzheimer's is a short form of Alzheimer's disease, that is, a disease associated with Dr. Alzheimer, the first to
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