| Drager respirometer | An inferential meter to measure tidal and minute volume from the number of revolutions of a vane rotated by the gas stream as the latter passes through two lightweight lozenge-shaped meshing rotors. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Drager, Glenn | <person> U.S. Neurologist, *1917. See: Shy-Drager syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Drager, Heinrich | <person> German manufacturer of industrial and diving respiratory apparatus, *1898. See: Drager respirometer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shy-drager syndrome | <syndrome> A progressive degenerative disease of the central and autonomic nervous systems characterised by orthostatic hypotension, urinary and faecal incontinence, anhidrosis, external ophthalmoplegia, generalised weakness, muscle wasting, tremors, and impotence. (12 Dec 1998) |
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