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Definition of Adrenals
1. adrenal [n] - See also: adrenal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adrenals
Literary usage of Adrenals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The adrenals in Arteriosclerosis.—The atheroma which has been observed so uniformly
in rabbits, after intravenous injections of adrenalin, has suggested ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Relation of the adrenals to the ovaries. Other glands with internal secretion,
notably the adrenals, the thyroid, and the hypophysis, are so closely ..."
3. Chemical Pathology by Harry Gideon Wells (1907)
"When the function of the adrenals is reduced through pathological alterations (Addison's
disease), or abolished by experimental extirpation, ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1899)
"The lesions in simple atrophy of the adrenals afford a much better opportunity
of investigating the gradual death of the parenchyma than the gross ..."
5. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"DISEASES OF THE adrenals General Anatomy and Physiology. ... A striking embryologie
contrast is presented by the two portions of the adrenals, ..."
6. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"Thymus and adrenals. —It is a very interesting fact, too, that after thymectomy
the suprarenal bodies seem to undergo marked hyperplasia, whereas, ..."
7. Manual of Human and Comparative Histology by Salomon Stricker, Henry Power (1872)
"THE adrenals OR SUPRARENAL CAPSULES. BY CJ EBERTH. IN Fishes the adrenals lie on
the anterior or posterior surface of the kidneys, in the form of small ..."
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