Acute insufficiency of corticosteroid secretion, seen especially in patients with Addison's (or other adrenal) disease, and manifested by hypotension and shock; an instance of this.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Lancet.
Definition of Addisonian crisis in US English:
Addisonian crisis
noun
Medicine
Acute insufficiency of corticosteroid secretion, seen especially in patients with Addison's (or other adrenal) disease, and manifested by hypotension and shock; an instance of this.