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Graves' disease

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Named after Irish physician Robert James Graves (1796–1853).

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Graves' disease (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) Hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs.
    • 1862 September 6, British Medical Journal[1]:
      We would therefore reserve for it the title of Exophthalmic Goitre, or, what is better, Graves's Disease.
    • 1921 February 12, New York Medical Journal[2], volume 113, page 269:
      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.
    • 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:
      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.
    • 2010, Ernst Nyström, Thyroid Disease in Adults[3], page 155:
      In iodine sufficient countries, Graves' disease is the predominant cause of hyperthyroidism in young and middle-aged patients.

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