diff --git a/tornado/httpclient.py b/tornado/httpclient.py
index c8c13f61..25d07ae5 100644
--- a/tornado/httpclient.py
+++ b/tornado/httpclient.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class AsyncHTTPClient(object):
 
         If an error occurs during the fetch, the HTTPResponse given to the
         callback has a non-None error attribute that contains the exception
-        encountered during the request. You can call response.reraise() to
+        encountered during the request. You can call response.rethrow() to
         throw the exception (if any) in the callback.
         """
         if not isinstance(request, HTTPRequest):