Wiktionary
adrenalectomize
alt. (context transitive English) To subject to an adrenalectomy. vb. (context transitive English) To subject to an adrenalectomy.
Usage examples of "adrenalectomize".
By 1929 methods were developed that enabled biochemists to prepare extracts of the adrenal cortex which served to lengthen the life of adrenalectomized animals (those from which the adrenal glands had been removed).
The mineralocorticoids seem to be more immediately vital to life than are the glycocorticoids, for adrenalectomized rats are kept alive longer by the administration of DOC than by use of corticosterone.
Weight for weight, its efficiency in promoting the survival of an adrenalectomized rat was twenty-five times as great as was that of DOC.