See Also: von Gierke(dictionary)
Gierke's disease(medicine)
Gierke, Edgar von(medicine)
Gierke, Hans(medicine)
Gierke cells(medicine)
von Gierke's disease(medicine)
Gierke's respiratory bundle(medicine)

stratagem (oh) and von Gierke (iou)


stratagem (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Italian; Origin: stratagemma, from Latin, from Greek stratagema, from stratagein 'to lead an army', from strategos 'General', from stratos 'army' + agein 'to lead']
formal a trick or plan to deceive an enemy or gain an advantage
-synonym ploy ploy

von Gierke (iou)



von Gierke noun. M20.
[Edgar O. K. von Gierke (1877-1945), German pathologist.]
Medicine. Used in possess. and attrib. to designate a type of glycogen storage disease, caused by an enzyme deficiency and characterized by an enlarged liver, obesity, and stunted growth.