cushing's syndrome

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   a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol

   Synonymshyperadrenocorticism

   Broaderglandular disease

Questions about cushing's syndrome

What does cushing's syndrome mean?

cushing's syndrome means "a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol".

What is another word for cushing's syndrome?

Close synonyms include hyperadrenocorticism. 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 syndrome a common word?

cushing'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.