hypoadrenocorticism

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 diseaseAddison's syndromehypoadrenalism

   Broaderglandular disease

Other forms of hypoadrenocorticism

plural

hypoadrenocorticisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypoadrenocorticism

What does hypoadrenocorticism mean?

hypoadrenocorticism 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".

How many syllables are in hypoadrenocorticism?

hypoadrenocorticism has 8 syllables: hy-po-a-dre-no-cor-ti-cism. The stress falls on "cor".

What is another word for hypoadrenocorticism?

Close synonyms include Addison's disease, Addison's syndrome, hypoadrenalism. 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 hypoadrenocorticism a common word?

hypoadrenocorticism 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.