Hashimoto's disease
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- noun
- /ˈhæʃɪˌmoʊtoʊz dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad de Hashimoto
- Many middle-aged women are diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease, which affects the thyroid gland.
Examples
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If you want to find out whether your hypothyroidism is due to Hashimoto's disease (the great majority is), you could ask for an anti-TPO test that will measure the antibodies in your blood.
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My doctor explained that Hashimoto's disease is an autoimmune disorder that can lead to hypothyroidism.
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You could be like me and have both Hashimoto's disease and Graves' disease.
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The growth was benign, and at that point, the doctor said that I had Hashimoto's disease.
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Now I know I had hypothyroidism and probably Hashimoto's disease.
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The hospital found out that Nick also has Hashimoto's disease (low thyroid).
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This autoimmune form of hypothyroidism is called Hashimoto's disease.
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First, Gena Lee Nolin, star of Baywatch and Sheena, announced that she had been battling undiagnosed Hashimoto's disease and hypothyroidism for years.
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After experiencing fatigue and weight gain, I learned that I had Hashimoto's disease.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Hashimoto's + disease
The compound follows the transparent pattern 'X disease' so a learner who knows 'disease' will understand it denotes a medical condition associated with 'Hashimoto' (a name). However, the specific clinical sense — an autoimmune thyroid disorder leading to hypothyroidism — cannot be predicted from the parts, because 'Hashimoto's' is an eponym and conveys no semantic information about the pathology to learners. This partial predictability across languages makes the item semi-transparent.
Etymology
Hashimoto's disease is named after a Japanese doctor, Dr Hashimoto, who first described this thyroid illness. So the name now means 'a long-term problem of the thyroid'.