Meanings
- uncountablemedicineHyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs.
We would therefore reserve for it the title of Exophthalmic Goitre, or, what is better, Graves's Disease.
1862 September 6, British Medical Journal3 more examples
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.
1921 February 12, New York Medical Journal, volume 113, page 269Graves' 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.
1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4In iodine sufficient countries, Graves' disease is the predominant cause of hyperthyroidism in young and middle-aged patients.
2010, Ernst Nyström, Thyroid Disease in Adults, page 155Synonyms: exophthalmic goiter, Graves-Basedow disease
Synonyms & antonyms
nounHyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs.
More synonyms by meaning
nounexophthalmos occurring in association with goiter; hyperthyroidism with protrusion of the eyeballs
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Origin
Named after Irish physician Robert James Graves (1796–1853).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 瀰漫性毒性甲狀腺腫 /弥漫性毒性甲状腺肿
- 瀰漫性毒性甲狀腺腫 /弥漫性毒性甲状腺肿 (mímànxìng dúxìng jiǎzhuàngxiànzhǒng)hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
Dutch ziekte van Graves
- ziekte van Graveshyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
Finnish Gravesin tauti
- Gravesin tautihyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
French maladie de Graves-Basedow, maladie de Graves
- maladie de Graves-Basedowhyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
- maladie de Graveshyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
Italian malattia di Flaiani-Basedow, morbo di Basebow
- malattia di Flaiani-Basedowhyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
- morbo di Basebowhyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
- gozzo esoftalmicohyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
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