A medical condition causing obesity, weakness, and other symptoms due to excessive cortisol hormones, typically named after the doctor who identified it.
Named after Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurosurgeon who first described this endocrine disorder. Medical conditions are often named 'eponymously' (after the person who discovered them).
Harvey Cushing was obsessed with tiny tumors in the pituitary gland that he could barely see with the tools of his time, yet he figured out these microscopic growths were flooding the body with a hormone that destroyed people's health. He pioneered neurosurgery to remove them in the brain—work so delicate it seemed impossible. Today we name the disease after him, which is how medicine honors genius.
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