iron-storage disease

Questions about iron-storage disease

What does iron-storage disease mean?

iron-storage disease means "pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues; characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints".

What is another word for iron-storage disease?

Close synonyms include hemochromatosis, iron overload, bronzed diabetes. 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 iron-storage disease a common word?

iron-storage 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.