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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of the endocrine glands.
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- noun physiology The
study of theendocrine glands of thehuman body , thehormones produced by them, and their relateddisorders
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- noun the branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions
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Examples
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Our Center includes a team of specialists in endocrinology, pediatric surgery, pathology and interventional radiology who have long experience in treating infants with this condition.
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Just the previous year I called him to apply for a fellowship in endocrinology at Washington University.
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There I learned endocrinology from the brilliant lectures by
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During these five years of medical studies, I had always been interested in endocrinology, probably because two of my best teachers of clinical medicine, P. Etienne-Martin and J. Charpy were themselves interested in what were in those days the early concepts of endocrinology and the beginning logical therapy it appeared to offer.
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We were witnessing the birth of a new era in endocrinology, one that started with Yalow.
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Whether its ’supplements’ or altitude training or heated pants for NFL kickers or advances in endocrinology and genetics.
How We Would Fight Steroids If We Really Meant It - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The Endocrine Society now offers online access to every issue of four top-cited journals in endocrinology.
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He also believes it was written by people "who are obviously completely ignorant of basic endocrinology, which is required to evaluate a chemical that acts like the sex hormone estradiol."
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Along with general chiropractic, I have additional training and specialization in women's and children's issues, as well as functional endocrinology, which is an alternative treatment for hormone balancing, thyroid management, menopause, infertility issues, high cholesterol, diabetes, and stress management.
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Along with general chiropractic, I have additional training and specialization in women's and children's issues, as well as functional endocrinology, which is an alternative treatment for hormone balancing, thyroid management, menopause, infertility issues, high cholesterol, diabetes, and stress management.
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