addison's syndrome

1. 1.

   a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin

   SynonymsAddison's diseasehypoadrenalismhypoadrenocorticism

   Broaderglandular disease

Questions about addison's syndrome

What does addison's syndrome mean?

addison's syndrome means "a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin".

What is another word for addison's syndrome?

Close synonyms include Addison's disease, hypoadrenalism, hypoadrenocorticism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is addison's syndrome a common word?

addison's syndrome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.