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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A steroid hormone, C21H30O3, secreted by the adrenal cortex or produced synthetically and formerly used to treat adrenal insufficiency.
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- noun biochemistry A
steroid hormone , produced in theadrenal cortex ; sometimes manufacturedsynthetically for use in cases of adrenal insufficiency.
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Patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia arising from mutations of 11β-hydroxylase, the final enzyme in the glucocorticoid biosynthetic pathway, exhibit glucocorticoid deficiency, adrenal hyperplasia driven by unsuppressed hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal activity, and excess mineralocorticoid activity caused by the accumulation of deoxycorticosterone.
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