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morbus Addisonii (medicine)


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chronic adrenocortical insufficiency
Adrenocortical insufficiency usually as the result of idiopathic atrophy or destruction of both adrenal glands by tuberculosis, an autoimmune process, or Other diseases; characterised by fatigue, decreased blood pressure, Weight Loss, increased melanin pigmentation of the skin and mucous membranes, anorexia, and nausea or vomiting; without appropriate replacement therapy, it can progress to acute adrenocortical insufficiency.

Synonym: Addison's disease, addisonian syndrome, hyposupradrenalism, morbus Addisonii.


Beat Generation, the (oh)



the group of young people in the 1950s, including the writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who refused to accept the values of Western society, and showed this by refusing to work, keeping no material possessions, and wearing their own style of clothes