Word: dysautonomia
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Painstakingly, Dr. Riley and his colleagues sought for causes and cures of what they named dysautonomia (disorder of the automatic nervous system). From operations on the living and autopsies on children who died of infections, they ruled out adrenal tumors or physical damage to the brain. So far, they have found no cause, but there is no doubt that the disease runs in families, and susceptibility may be transmitted by both parents through a recessive gene...