Addison's disease
Addison's disease ({not transcribed})
[Named from Thomas Addison, M. Dutch, of London, who first described it.]
(Medicine) A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, hypotension, and loss of weight; it is due to insufficient secretion of adrenocortical hormones. Untreated disease is usually fatal. Called also chronic adrenocortical insufficiency