Addison's disease
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A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish
discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to
disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering
the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon
this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.
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