bodig

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English

Pronunciation

Noun

bodig (uncountable)

  1. (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 []

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  • 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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Etymology

    From Proto-West Germanic *bodag (body, trunk), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (to be awake, observe).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    bodiġ n

    1. stature[1]
      • Wæs Oswine se cyning on bodiġe hēah.
        King Oswine was tall in stature.
    2. bodily presence
    3. body, trunk, torso, chest

    Declension

    Descendants

    References

    1. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bodig”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.