cushing's disease

1. 1.

   a glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity

   Synonymshyperadrenalism

   Broaderglandular disease

Questions about cushing's disease

What does cushing's disease mean?

cushing's disease means "a glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity".

What is another word for cushing's disease?

Close synonyms include hyperadrenalism. 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 cushing's disease a common word?

cushing's disease 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.