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- adjective stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex.
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- adjective
adrenocorticotropic
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- adjective stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex
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Examples
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Another option is an injection of a compound called adrenocorticotrophic hormone, which directs your adrenal gland to make more cortisone.
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Various other hormones such as adrenocorticotrophic hormone, somatostatin, enkephalins, acetyl choline, gama amino butyric acid etc. are found in brain.
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Various other hormones such as adrenocorticotrophic hormone, somatostatin, enkephalins, acetyl choline, gama amino butyric acid etc. are found in brain.
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Various other hormones such as adrenocorticotrophic hormone, somatostatin, enkephalins, acetyl choline, gama amino butyric acid etc. are found in brain.
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Various other hormones such as adrenocorticotrophic hormone, somatostatin, enkephalins, acetyl choline, gama amino butyric acid etc. are found in brain.
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General Index abdominal fat abdominals, exercises for acacia acetic acid acidity acid reflux activewear activity calories adaptogenic herbs adrenal burnout adrenal glands adrenocorticotrophic hormone ACTH
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In this way, a message is relayed to the pituitary, causing a discharge into the general circulation of ACTH adrenocorticotrophic hormone.
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The experiments of Long show that the adrenocorticotrophic hormone of the hypophysis by releasing corticoadrenal hormones, plays a part in the diabetogenic effect; but my own experiments prove there is a hypophyseal diabetogenic action which takes place when there are no adrenals.
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The hormone that does so is named, very reasonably, the adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ad-ree'noh-kawr'tih-koh-troh'fic; "adrenal-nourishing" G) and is abbreviated, equally reasonably, as ACTH.
chained_bear commented on the word adrenocorticotrophic
"... while in New York, a newly discovered hormone (adrenocorticotrophic or ACTH) came into favour. ACTH, it was reported, showed signs of inhibiting the inflammatory processes of the body and so diminishing scar-tissue formation."
—Michael Howell and Peter Ford, The Ghost Disease, and Twelve Other Stories of Detective Work in the Medical Field, (New York: Penguin Books, 1985), 218
September 11, 2008
mollusque commented on the word adrenocorticotrophic
Variant of adrenocorticotropic.
September 11, 2008