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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Cush′ing's disease′, [Pathol.]- Pathologya disease characterized by abnormal accumulations of facial and trunk fat, fatigue, hypertension, and osteoporosis, caused by hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex or administration of adrenal cortical hormones. Also called Cush′ing's syn′drome.
- after H. west, western. Cushing, who first described it 1935–40
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