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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
endocrine
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cell
▪ Serum gastrin concentrations did not correlate well with changes in the endocrine cell density.
▪ Patients underwent gastric endoscopy with biopsy specimens taken for determination of the histological endocrine cell status.
▪ More recent findings indicate that hypergastrinaemia associated with pernicious anaemia leads to hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells.
▪ In association with endocrine cell hyperplasia, gastric carcinoid tumours have been observed in 1-7% of pernicious anaemia patients screened by gastroscopy.
▪ It seems possible that this material originates from rare mucosal endocrine cells expressing the gastrin gene.
▪ The carcinoids were associated with diffuse and nodular hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells.
▪ Fifteen additional patients showed nodular hyperplasia of endocrine cells that was not seen in 14 normal controls.
▪ It is generally assumed that hypergastrinaemia predisposes to the development of gastric carcinoids through progressive hyperplastic changes of fundic endocrine cells.
system
▪ Pollution-related illnesses included kidney disease, anaemia and defects in the endocrine system.
▪ The Endocrine System Your endocrine system is sensitive to all your thoughts and feelings.
▪ Your endocrine system also keeps you in balance and maintains your readiness to respond to internal and external stressors.
▪ At least 51 such chemicals, most of them pesticides, have been found to upset the workings of the endocrine system.
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▪ an endocrine gland
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dizziness may be a part of the symptomatology of endocrine disease.
▪ In association with endocrine cell hyperplasia, gastric carcinoid tumours have been observed in 1-7% of pernicious anaemia patients screened by gastroscopy.
▪ Our Stolen Future, the book you co-authored on endocrine disruptors, has been hailed as the second Silent Spring.
▪ Patients underwent gastric endoscopy with biopsy specimens taken for determination of the histological endocrine cell status.
▪ Subtler methods of modifying endocrine balance continued to be explored.
▪ The endocrine glands secrete behavior-regulating hor-mones directly into the bloodstream.
▪ The result was that the babies with analgesia had much reduced postoperative endocrine changes, fewer complications and earlier recovery.
▪ Your endocrine system also keeps you in balance and maintains your readiness to respond to internal and external stressors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
endocrine

"secreting internally," 1914, from endo- + Latinized form of Greek krinein "to separate, distinguish" (see crisis). Denoting glands having an internal secretion.

Wiktionary
endocrine

a. 1 Producing internal secretions that are transported around the body by the bloodstream. 2 Pertaining to the endocrine glands or their secretions. n. 1 The secretion of an endocrine gland. 2 An endocrine gland.

WordNet
endocrine

adj. of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions; "endocrine system" [syn: endocrinal] [ant: exocrine]

endocrine
  1. n. the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect [syn: hormone, internal secretion]

  2. any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream [syn: endocrine gland, ductless gland]

Wikipedia
Endocrine (journal)

Endocrine (subtitle: International Journal of Basic and Clinical Endocrinology) is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering endocrinology. It was established in 1993 as the Endocrine Journal, and obtained its current name the following year. The editor-in-chief is Andrea Giustina ( University of Brescia). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 3.878.

Usage examples of "endocrine".

Terrible heat and a pervasive moldy smell that kept us all sniffling in spite of the antiallergenic drugs that our modified endocrine systems fed us.

Analysis of gastrointestinal musculoskeletal, genito-urinary, hematologic, endocrine, dermatologic, and neurological systems followed.

Above the waistband, the lower set of eyesthe lensless ones that sent biorhythm signals to the structures that corresponded to the pineal gland in the human midbrainhad gone milky, signifying a new stage of endocrine changes.

When the best microscopes could barely resolve nerve fibres, this was not a problem: but the devil lies in the detail, and with electron micrographs taking us down to the macromolecular level of cytology, and with biochemistry finally beginning to explain how everything works, the brain was revealed for what it is--a mass of fleshy endocrine cells squirting their neurotransmitter messages at one another in promiscuous abandon.

Hivistahm who studied us kept talking about our neuromuscular structure and how it was tied into our peculiar endocrine system.

English army which had given him a bioware endocrine gland implant, a sophisticated construct of neurosecretory cells which consumed his blood and extravasated psi-stimulant neurohormones under the control of a cortical processor.

Some neurological alterations, the endocrine system, hormones, the vomeronasal organ.

Testing for genes predisposed to multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 and, possibly, breast and ovarian cancer may in time save lives, Collins judges.

A potent amino soup, full of recombinant endocrine secretions and hormones, fed every cell in Davies' small form, triggering in seconds DNA- programmed developments which should have taken months to complete.

And we will do so not in the ineffective ways of previous conferences, but with a bold new direction: a concentrated attack on the bioaccumulation of synthetic chemicals that may be disrupting the human endocrine system.

The damage done by bioaccumulation of synthetic endocrine disrupters is an unimaginable enormity.

The patient will suffer no injury, but we have found that the effect of increased activity and apparent danger on the endocrine system aids the process of mentation.

At the moment, I am especially absorbed in a study of the endocrines - the ductless glands.

The vortices appear opposite the ductless glands in the endocrine system.

It is, speaking in terms of evolution, the oldest endocrine gland in the human body.