Addisonian crisis
Medicine
noun
Acute insufficiency of corticosteroid secretion, seen especially in patients with Addison's (or other adrenal) disease, and manifested by hypotension and shock; an instance of this.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Lancet.
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