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Definition of Acromegalics
1. acromegalic [n] - See also: acromegalic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acromegalics
Literary usage of Acromegalics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Even centenarian acromegalics have been recorded. ... An analysis of the previous
history of acromegalics reveals the frequency of disturbances of ..."
2. The Internal Secretions and the Nervous System by Maxime Laignel-Lavastine (1919)
"acromegalics with deficiency syndromes, myxedema, infantilism, amenorrhea, ...
acromegalics, giants, with spontaneous glycosuria of alimentary or adrenal ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"In acromegalics, recurrent periods of " feeling acromegalic " in which there ...
However in only three of Dr. Cushing's series of 30 or 40 acromegalics was ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"In acromegalics, recurrent periods of " feeling acromegalic " in which there ...
However in only three of Dr. Cushing's series of 30 or 40 acromegalics was ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"Twenty per cent, of acromegalics are above six feet in height when the symptoms
begin, and fully 40 per cent. of giants are ..."
6. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1920)
"The study of patients with chronic arthritis along the line of comparison with
the anatomic characteristics of acromegalics brings out certain points of ..."
7. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"acromegalics, especially in the late stages of ... has collected n cases of young
acromegalics with marked or extreme obesity. Such a condition is referred ..."
8. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Sternberg first described the combination of acromegaly and gigantism. He states
that 40 per cent, of all the giants are acromegalics, and 20 per cent, ..."
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