bodig
English
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editbodig (uncountable)
- (medicine) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes dementia.
- ´1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind:
- Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.
- 2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo, David E. Riley, Gregor K. Wenning, Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108:
- Often lumped with lytico owing to clinical, familial, and pathological associations, is the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (PDCG), known locally as bodig; 40% of patients with bodig also have lytico. PDCG has its onset in middle […]
- ´1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind:
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edit- 2011 June 30, Robert F. Rogers, Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 208:
- The naval physicians renamed the bodig aspect of the disease, in which the spinal cord and brain are attacked, parkinsonism-dementia complex. In ALS, the lytico aspect, a sound brain is imprisoned in a paralyzed body.
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editFrom Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”).
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editbodiġ n
- stature[1]
- Wæs Oswine se cyning on bodiġe hēah.
- King Oswine was tall in stature.
- bodily presence
- body, trunk, torso, chest
Declension
editDeclension of bodig (strong a-stem)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bodig”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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