noun
[mass noun]a disease characterized by progressive anaemia, low blood pressure, great weakness, and bronze discoloration of the skin. It is caused by inadequate secretion of hormones by the adrenal cortex
阿狄森氏病（以进行性贫血症，低血压，极度虚弱和皮肤变为青铜色为特征；由肾上腺皮质激素分泌不足引起的）

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语源
mid 19th cent.: named after Thomas Addison (1793–1860), the English physician who described the disease