Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, thebodig.
2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo, David E. Riley, Gregor K. Wenning,Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, page108:
Often lumped with lytico owing to clinical, familial, and pathological associations, is the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (PDCG), known locally asbodig; 40% of patients withbodig also have lytico. PDCG has its onset in middle[…]
2011 June 30, Robert F. Rogers,Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition, University of Hawaii Press,→ISBN, page208:
The naval physicians renamed the bodig aspect of the disease, in which the spinal cord and brain are attacked, parkinsonism-dementia complex. In ALS, the lytico aspect, a sound brain is imprisoned in a paralyzed body.
