addison's disease
Noun
Meaning
A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.
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An NHS business support manager, Amanda is worried about her 67-year-old father Robert, who suffers from Addison's Disease.
Addison's disease, even in subclinical form may mimic many of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa. citation * Gastric adenocarcinoma is one of the most common forms of cancer in the world.
Diseases classified as primary adrenal insufficiency (including Addison's disease and genetic causes) directly affect the adrenal cortex.
In the following decades several physicians experimented with extracts from the adrenal cortex to treat Addison's disease.
In the Western world, Addison's disease is most commonly an autoimmune condition, in which the body produces antibodies against cells of the adrenal cortex.
Kennedy went to great lengths to conceal his ailments, even denying to reporters that he had Addison's disease.