Graves' disease

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

Graves' disease (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs.
   • 1862 September 6, British Medical Journal‎:

     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, 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, page 155:

     In iodine sufficient countries, Graves' disease is the predominant cause of hyperthyroidism in young and middle-aged patients.

• exophthalmic goiter
• Graves-Basedow disease