What is Graves' Disease???

I heard the disease when I was talking to a friend, but I have no idea what it is or what it does. Can anyone help me please? Thank you to who ever does.

Graves' Disease is a cause of hypothyroidism, when the thyroid produces excessive hormones. It is easy to treat after diagnosis, but if not, it can lead to terrible complications, even death.

(Per Stedman's Electronic Dictionary:) 1. toxic goiter characterized by diffuse hyperplasia of the thyroid gland, a form of hyperthyroidism; exophthalmos is a common, but not invariable, concomitant finding;
2. thyroid dysfunction and all or any of its clinical associations;
3. an organ-specific autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland.

See: thyrotoxicosis, Hashimoto thyroiditis, goiter, myxedema.

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