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Sjögren disease, not Sjögren's. 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.