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Addison Path.|ˈædɪsən|
The name of an English physician, Thomas Addison (1793–1860), used to designate the condition resulting from defective functioning of the suprarenal glands, characterized by progressive anæmia, debility, and a brown pigmentation of the skin. Also Addison's anæmia, Addisonian anæmia, pernicious anæmia. Hence ˈAddisonism, Addison's disease. Cf. bronzed ppl. a. 4.
[1856Trousseau in Bull. Acad. Med. XXI. 1036 Une maladie bizarre, à laquelle M. le docteur Addison..a donné le nom de peau bronzée, de maladie bronzée, et à laquelle je crois devoir donner désormais le nom de maladie d'Addison.] 1856Med. Times & Gaz. 30 Aug. 230/2 Lecturing on..the Bronze Disease, shown by Addison to be so frequently connected with disease of the supra-renal capsules, M. Trousseau suggests that it should be denominated ‘Addison's Disease’. 1876J. S. Bristowe Theory & Practice Med. iv. 582 Addison's disease occurs much more frequently in males than in females. 1906Lancet 4 Aug. 288/2 Boinet has classified..a few other diseases showing pigmentation under the title of Addisonism. 1910Practitioner Jan. 126 The appearance presented by the tongue described by Dr. W. Hunter as specific for Addisonian anæmia. 1933Discovery Mar. 83/1 Pernicious anaemia, or as it is more generally known, Addisonian anaemia, was first described by Addison, a physician at Guy's, in 1856. 1950Sci. News XV. 132 The progress of Addison's disease can be checked by administering suitable extracts of the adrenal glands of animals. |