anadenia

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English

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Etymology

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From an- +‎ -adenia.

Noun

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anadenia

  1. (medicine) Insufficiency or lack of glands, especially those of the gastrointestinal system.
    • 1892, Carl Anton Ewald, Lectures on Diseases of the Digestive Organs - Volume 2, page 533:
      I have convinced myself in the postmortem room that many persons dying with the diagnosis of senile decay present extensive anadenia, generally combined with dilatation of the stomach.
    • 1895, Medical Record, page 6:
      From the above it is apparent that the clinical picture of achylia gastrica does not suffice to establish the diagnosis of anadenia ventriculi.
    • 1907, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association:
      In anadenia there is an increase of the connective tissue accompanied by round cell infiltration, and a consequent choking up of the glands of the stomach, ending in loss of secretion of free HCl and other products