Meanings
nounbodig (uncountable)
- uncountablemedicineA medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes dementia.
Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.
´1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind1 more example
Often lumped with lytico owing to clinical, familial, and pathological associations, is the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (PDCG), known locally as bodig; 40% of patients with bodig also have lytico. PDCG has its onset in middle[…]
2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo, David E. Riley, Gregor K. Wenning, Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108
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