Term: cushing's disease: a glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity
Candidate hypernym: glandular disease: a disorder of the glands of the body → 1
Candidate hypernym: tinker: a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: small letter: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case → 0
Candidate hypernym: salsilla: tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America → 0
Candidate hypernym: save-all: a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail → 0
Candidate hypernym: chaparral pea: spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California → 0
Candidate hypernym: turnstone: migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food → 0
Candidate hypernym: guinea fowl: a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus edaphosaurus: type genus of the Edaphosauridae → 0
Candidate hypernym: silver tree fern: a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides → 0
Candidate hypernym: dangerousness: the quality of not being safe → 0