Simmond's disease

Simmond's disease
loss of sexual function, loss of weight, and other features of failure of the pituitary gland (hypopituitarism) caused by trauma or tumours or occurring in women after childbirth complicated by bleeding (postpartum haemorrhage).
M. Simmonds (1885-1925), German physician

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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