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The branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions
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endocrinology
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Endocrinology (from Greek , endon , "within"; , krīnō , "to separate"; and , -logia ) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system , its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones . It is also concerned with the integration ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1917, from endocrine + -ology . Related: Endocrinologist .
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n. (context physiology English) The study of the endocrine glands of the human body, the hormones produced by them, and their related disorders
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n. the branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions
Usage examples of endocrinology.
It had never occurred to Myron or to Effie that in an hotel suite, without even dish-wiping or feeding the chickens, and with no particular longing to study Imagism or Assyriology or the History of Endocrinology, she would not have enough to do.
To understand this syndrome, we must pull together from such scattered fields as psychology, neurology, communications theory and endocrinology, what science can tell us about human adaptation.
They're quite fine when I was younger, but disregard a lot of the things dated pre-2312: they're useful if you want to see the evolution of thought: psychogenesis was something I was working on as early as 2304, but I didn't have the key studies in endocrinology until I had studied a good deal more.