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Abstract
An adrenal disease characterized by the progressive destruction of the ADRENAL CORTEX, resulting in insufficient production of ALDOSTERONE and HYDROCORTISONE. Clinical symptoms include ANOREXIA; NAUSEA; WEIGHT LOSS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; and HYPERPIGMENTATION of the SKIN due to increase in circulating levels of ACTH precursor hormone which stimulates MELANOCYTES.
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- Addison's Disease
- Primary Adrenal Insufficiency
- Primary Adrenocortical Insufficiency
- Primary Hypoadrenalism
- Addisons Disease
- Adrenal Insufficiency, Primary
- Adrenocortical Insufficiencies, Primary
- Adrenocortical Insufficiency, Primary
- Disease, Addison
- Hypoadrenalism, Primary
- Hypoadrenalisms, Primary
- Insufficiencies, Primary Adrenocortical
- Insufficiency, Primary Adrenocortical
- Primary Adrenocortical Insufficiencies
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2005 (1963)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Addison Disease. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000224. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000224
- Addison Disease. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison%27s_disease
- Addison Disease. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8282