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Graves' disease
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English
Graves-Basedow disease
Etymology
en Irish physician Robert James Graves = 1796 1853.
Noun
Graves' disease -
en disease Hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs.
en British Medical Journal 6 September 1862 We would therefore reserve for it the title of Exophthalmic Goitre, or, what is better, Graves's Disease. https://books.google.com/books?id=uxhFAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Graves'%20disease%22&pg=PA262#v=onepage&q=%22Graves'%20disease%22&f=false
en New York Medical Journal 113 269 12 February 1921 The latter operation, though still occasionally practised by exceptionally bold surgeons, entails a very high mortality rate,and as soon as its futility as a rational cure of Graves's disease was demonstrated, has practically been discarded. https://books.google.com/books?id=ctA6AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Graves'%20disease%22&pg=PA268#v=onepage&q=%22Graves'%20disease%22&f=false
en 1994 Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Houghton Mifflin 039568093X 4 https://archive.org/details/prozacnationyou000wurt/page/4/mode/1up Graves' disease, which is a hyperthyroid condition, runs in my family, and the treatment for it makes you fat, gives you these bulging, ghoulish eyes and creates all kinds of symptoms that I think would make me more depressed than I am without lithium.
en Thyroid Disease in Adults 155 Ernst Nyström 2010 In iodine sufficient countries, Graves' disease is the predominant cause of hyperthyroidism in young and middle-aged patients. https://books.google.com/books?id=k0cU7tDcFlMC&lpg=PA155&dq=%22Graves'%20disease%22&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q=%22Graves'%20disease%22&f=false
Synonyms
en exophthalmic goiter
en Graves-Basedow disease
Translations
hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 瀰漫性毒性甲狀腺腫 mímànxìng dúxìng jiǎzhuàngxiànzhǒng
Dutch: nl ziekte van Graves f
Finnish: fi Gravesin tauti
French: fr maladie de Graves-Basedow, fr maladie de Graves
Italian: it malattia di Flaiani-Basedow f, it morbo di Basebow m, it gozzo esoftalmico m
Kazakh: kk бақшаңкөз