Definitions
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- noun Same as
acromegaly .
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- noun pathology An alternative name for the disease
acromegaly .
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- noun enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor)
Etymologies
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New Latin acromegalia, from Ancient Greek ἄκρον (akron, "tip, extremity") and μέγας (megas, "large").
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Examples
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As early as in the 1880's the great French research worker, Pierre Marie, had found that the excretion of sugar in the urine was a regular symptom in acromegalia, which is due to a disturbance in the function of the hypophysis, and therefore a connection between the function of the hypophysis and the metabolism of sugar might be suspected.
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Deviation with pathology the very tall acromegalia
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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