Term: conn's syndrome: disturbances in saltwater balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis; usually caused by a benign tumor of the cortex of the adrenal gland that leads to excess secretion of aldosterone
Candidate hypernym: syndrome: a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease → 1
Candidate hypernym: branching: the act of branching out or dividing into branches → 0
Candidate hypernym: constriction: the action or process of compressing → 0
Candidate hypernym: seminoma: malignant tumor of the testis; usually occurring in older men → 0
Candidate hypernym: external gill: occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians → 0
Candidate hypernym: narrow: a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water → 0
Candidate hypernym: performance: the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it → 0
Candidate hypernym: parimutuel: betting where winners share the total amount wagered → 0
Candidate hypernym: mandamus: an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail → 0
Candidate hypernym: conceivableness: the state of being conceivable → 0
Candidate hypernym: dryopteris: large widespread genus of medium-sized terrestrial ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae → 0