The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hodgkin's disease \Hodg`kin's dis*ease"\ (Med.) A morbid condition characterized by progressive an[ae]mia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, named for Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866) who first described it.
Usage examples of "hodgkin's disease".
There was Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
We politely inquired about each other's family, and I remembered to ask about her brother James and his Hodgkin's disease.
We politely inquired about each other's family, and I remembered to askabout her brother James and his Hodgkin's disease.
With the discovery that alkaloids from Catharantus roseus shrunk tumors from Hodgkin's disease, Darby had entered a race with other commercial labs, convinced that miracle drugs grew on trees.
He was telling me about a thing called Hodgkin's Disease that you cure by giving the patient arsenic.