bodig

Noun

bodig (uncountable)

1. 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.´1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind
   • 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[…]2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo, David E. Riley, Gregor K. Wenning, Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108