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Addison

American  
[ad-uh-suhn] / ˈæd ə sən /

noun

  1. Joseph, 1672–1719, English essayist and poet.

  2. Thomas, 1793–1860, English physician.

  3. a town in NE Illinois.


Addison British  
/ ˈædɪsən /

noun

  1. Joseph. 1672–1719, English essayist and poet who, with Richard Steele, founded The Spectator (1711–14) and contributed most of its essays, including the de Coverley Papers

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Ritchie has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a condition that affects the joints; functional neurological disorder, which impacts her mobility; Addison's disease, a hormonal disorder, and epilepsy.

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His character cycled through a long roster of colleagues as lovers — from Addison to Callie and beyond — so many that a group banded together as the “Nurses United Against Mark Sloan” in an episode that aired in 2007.

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Times restaurant critic Bill Addison as “deftly engineered chaos,” ultimately epitomizing the “L.A. dreamer, the go-getter.”

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