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Bernard-Sergent syndrome (medicine)


Bernard-Sergent syndrome -->
acute adrenocortical insufficiency


Severe adrenocortical insufficiency when an intercurrent illness or trauma causes an increased demand for adrenocortical hormones in a patient with adrenal insufficiency due to disease or use of relatively large amounts of similar hormones as therapy; characterised by nausea, vomiting, hypotension, and frequently hyperthemia, hyponatraemia, hyperkalaemia, and hypoglycaemia; can be fatal if untreated.

Synonym: addisonian crisis, adrenal crisis, Bernard-Sergent syndrome.


ground plan (oh)



n [C]
a drawing of how a building is arranged at ground level, showing the size, position, and shape of walls, rooms etc
-synonym floor plan floor plan
a plan for doing something in the future
::documents which formed the ground plan for the welfare state