Graves' disease en · NOUN
Etymology
Named after Irish physician Robert James Graves (1796–1853).
Meanings
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(uncountable) Hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs.
We would therefore reserve for it the title of Exophthalmic Goitre, or, what is better, Graves's Disease.
1862 September 6, British Medical Journal:Graves' disease, which is a hyperthyroid condition, runs in my family, and the treatment for it makes you fat, gives you these bulging, ghoulish eyes and creates all kinds of symptoms that I think would make me more depressed than I am without lithium.
1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:In iodine sufficient countries, Graves' disease is the predominant cause of hyperthyroidism in young and middle-aged patients.
2010, Ernst Nyström, Thyroid Disease in Adults, page 155:The latter operation, though still occasionally practised by exceptionally bold surgeons, entails a very high mortality rate,and as soon as its futility as a rational cure of Graves's disease was demonstrated, has practically been discarded.
1921 February 12, New York Medical Journal, volume 113, page 269:
Synonyms
Graves-Basedow disease · exophthalmic goiter
Translations (9)
nl ziekte van Graves (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs) · it malattia di Flaiani-Basedow (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs) · fr maladie de Graves-Basedow (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs) · it gozzo esoftalmico (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs) · kk бақшаңкөз (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs) · it morbo di Basebow (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs) · fi Gravesin tauti (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs) · cmn 瀰漫性毒性甲狀腺腫 /弥漫性毒性甲状腺肿 (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs) · fr maladie de Graves (hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs)