enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by o…
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a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen
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enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by o…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say ‘diabetes’ they usual…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say ‘diabetes’ they usual…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.an overactive thyroid gland; pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive product…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet
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Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The spe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.a nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are ex…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.an abnormal condition in males in which the urethra opens on the under surface of the penis
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: firm, partly, muscular, chestnut, sized.
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