Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excessive secretion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.
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- noun endocrinology Excessive
secretion
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- noun excessive secretion
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Examples
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Relationship of cortisol hypersecretion to brain CT scan alterations in depressed patients.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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When hypersecretion is suspected and high hormonal concentrations are observed, one must determine whether the level is appropriate or inappropriate and whether the hormonal secretion is autonomous or can be modulated by appropriate physiologic or pharmacologic agents.
Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems 1977
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These little sacs or muco-synovial capsules, under peculiar conditions of traumatism, are liable to become subject to a diseased process, which consists principally in a hypersecretion of their contents and an increase in dimensions, and they may undergo peculiar pathological changes of such character as to disable an animal, and in many instances to cause serious blemishes which can but depreciate its value.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Cigarette smoking causes lung inflammation, which can lead to oxidative stress, emphysema, small airway fibrosis, mucus hypersecretion and progressive airflow limitation.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Cigarette smoking causes lung inflammation, which can lead to oxidative stress, emphysema, small airway fibrosis, mucus hypersecretion and progressive airflow limitation.
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The hypersecretion of substances by the tumor, in particular serotonin, results in symptoms, mainly diarrhea and flushing.
DWS Pill Scribe pillscribe 2010
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If rebound acid hypersecretion induces acid-related symptoms, this might lead to PPI dependency.
Blisstree 2009
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If rebound acid hypersecretion induces acid-related symptoms, this might lead to PPI dependency.
Blisstree 2009
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If rebound acid hypersecretion induces acid-related symptoms, this might lead to PPI dependency.
Blisstree 2009
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Moreover, evidence of cortisol hypersecretion developed after 24 months of follow-up in a 30-year-old man with a 3. 5-cm adenoma in the left adrenal gland.
Notes from Dr. RW 2009
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