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/ˈboʊ.dɪɡ/ · noun
(medicine) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes dementia..
Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.
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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Bodig means (medicine) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes dementia..
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Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.
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