LaMer and Campbell recently have confirmed McCarrison's report of an augmentation in the weight of the adrenal glands in guinea-pigs fed on diets deficient in the antiscorbutic factor.
On section there was hemorrhagic infiltration, "usually circumscribed in extent and situated around the periphery of the adrenal cortex.
The experience of Lubarsch, who produced osteogenesis imperfecta in rabbits by means of a diet consisting mainly of liver, or adrenal gland, is of interest, especially as this condition did not come about when they were fed muscle tissue.
As regards scurvy, the only work is that of Rondoni, McCarrison and of LaMer and Campbell on the adrenal glands, which were found by all to be enlarged in guinea-pigs suffering from this disorder.
It is valuable in this connection to compare the adrenal in scurvy with that of beriberi.
In view of the report of Hart and Lessing of calcium deposits in the adrenal glands of monkeys suffering from scurvy, special attention should be given to this point in necropsies on human beings.
Similar calcium deposits were seen frequently in the adrenal glands, in their cortex, or at the border of the cortex and medulla.
Its significance is discussed at length in the consideration of the adrenal gland in human scurvy.
Finally, it should be remembered in this connection that Hart and Lessing found calcium deposits not only in the muscles and adrenal glands of their monkeys, but also in the liver.
The Influence of the Scorbutic Diet onAdrenal Gland, Indian Jour.
In this disorder, Albert found the adrenal normal in one case, and Andrews describes only congestion in his eighteen necropsies.
In monkeys dying of experimental scurvy, Hart and Lessing describe granules in the muscles, which, judged by their staining affinities, evidently contained calcium and were similar to those found in the adrenal glands.
We have seen what an important role the various internal secretions, such as the adrenal and thyroid secretions play in fitting the body for flight and combat, and how large a part fear and anger have in their production.
We have already seen how quickly emotion affects all secretions and how easily the adrenal and thyroid glands are influenced by fear.
Indigestion, palpitation, and tremors are not in themselves symbolic of the inner trouble but may be the result of an overdose of the adrenal and thyroid secretions and the other accompaniments of fear.
As we rise in the animal series, brain and adrenal glands march side by side in developmental increase of size, and at the same time, sexual activity and adrenal activity equally correspond.
Thus the adrenal glands, among the most influential of all the ductless glands, are specially and intimately associated alike with the brain and the sex organs.
Again, the kidneys, and especially the adrenal glands, influence the hair.
Solucortef in order to support hisadrenal glands, since it was common medical knowledge that he suffered from adrenal insufficiency.
What would that reaction cause, if anything, if the President had no adrenal insufficiency?
What history did you refer to of President Kennedy's adrenal insufficiency?
This would not cause severe effects on any organ at all if the adrenal gland were producing enough steroids.
The amount of glycogen in the liver was diminished in all the experiments showing brain-adrenal activity; and when the histologic changes were repaired, the normal amount of glycogen was again found.
In fact, the H-ion concentration of the blood in the adrenal vein was less than in the blood of any other part of the circulation.
When the adrenal nerve supply is divided (Cannon-Elliott), then there is no increased adrenal activity in response to adequate stimuli.
In hibernating woodchucks, the cells of the adrenal cortex were found to be vacuolated and shrunken.
This clear-cut insomnia experiment corresponds precisely with our other brain-adrenal observations.
Blood taken directly from the adrenal vein gave a positive result, but under deep morphinization the blood from the adrenal vein was negative, and under deep morphinization the foregoing adequate stimuli were negative.
We have shown that brain and adrenal activity go hand in hand, that is, that the adrenal secretion activates the brain, and that the brain activates the adrenals.
It was recalled that the President had been said to have adrenal insufficiency.
Yes, sir; he was given 300 milligrams of hydrocortisone which is an adrenal hormone.
What's wrong with repetitive adrenal whipping is that adrenal fortitude is variable; many people's adrenals eventually fail to respond to the prod of salt and the body begins to suffer from a lack of adrenal hormones.
At that time, adrenaline, a useful drug to temporarily rescue people close to death, was extracted from the adrenal glands of animals.
Perhaps the problem he had been having was not because the cats were without adrenal glands but because they were without sustenance, suffering a sort of slow starvation in the midst of plenty.
Upon analysis by biokinesiology I found that he had a major problem with large intestine weakness and secondarily, adrenal weakness.
The real problem with salt is that sodium chloride is an adrenal stimulant, triggering the release of adrenal hormones, especially natural steroids that resist inflammation.
The knee for example, has nerve pathway connections to the adrenal glands and kidneys.
Kelly's body also showed weaknesses in pancreatic and adrenal function as well as a toxic colon.
Pottenger earned his daily bread performing a rather simple task, assaying the potency of adrenal hormone extracts.
It is generally believed that the internal secretion of the thyroid and the adrenal are antagonistic.
They feel that this is of great importance in view of the fact that exercise (muscle metabolism) dyspnea, certain poisons, as well as adrenalin, and even adrenal extirpation occasion a high cholesterin content of the blood.
After a long resume of his ideas he concludes "that arteriosclerosis is the result of excessive or deficient activity of certain ductless glands, the thyroid and adrenal in particular.
Isolation of a New Vasoconstrictor Substance from the Blood and the Adrenal Cortex, Jour.
This substance was recovered by them from the cortex of the adrenal gland.
The renal surface is as a rule smaller than the gastric and, like it, is concave; it is moulded on to the upper part of the outer border of the left kidney and just reaches the left adrenal body.
In reptiles and birds they are long lobulated bodies lying close to the testis or ovary and receiving an adrenal portal vein.
I will not go mad, but I will go into the adrenal syndrome unless I can end this soon.
The constant stimulation will ultimately turn my overworked adrenal glands into a jelly-like mess of cystic quivering goo.
Addison promptly put down these constitutional effects of loss of the adrenal bodies to loss of something produced by them of constitutional importance.
Photographs of him show the long and broad face of a pituito-adrenal centered individual, with a corresponding duplex incarnation in the face, the upper half strikingly spiritual, the lower curiously animal.
The Glands of Combat, the glands of emergency energy, the glands of preparedness,--such are the adrenal glands when viewed from the adrenalin standpoint.
Thyroid and adrenal balance determines the resistance to decay of the molars.
The relation between the adrenal and the skin dates way back in the evolutionary scale, for adrenalin has been isolated directly from pigment deposits in the epidermis of frogs.
The combination becomes classifiable as the thyroid-pituitary type, or as the thyroid-adrenal type.
The thyroid type differs as much from the adrenal type as does a greyhound from a bull-dog.
Christina may be adrenal cortex centred and so masculinoid: courageous, sporty, mannish in her tastes, aggressive toward her companions.
The pineal possibly acts as a brake upon the adrenal cortex.
It is an interesting point to be noted that in these, as in those started by an overaction of theadrenal cortex, it is premature masculinity that is stimulated.
Professor Cannon's experiments are most interesting as he traces the variations of the flow of adrenal secretion induced by emotion and then retraces the effect of the chemical changes so produced upon bodily and mental states.
On the other hand any increase in adrenal secretion results in renewed sensitiveness to stimulation, that is by an increased power of the muscle to respond.
By and bye as her distress lessened and her expression of it became more and more automatic, there was a return to the normal adrenal discharge and consequent normal rise in pressure.
The adrenal glands have been fully and interestingly studied by Glynn, Quarterly Journal of Medicine, Jan.
These inhibitory effects are started by the stomach nerves, but are continued by the action of the adrenal juice {124} on the stomach walls.
The internal responses of the adrenal glands and liver you could not expect to sense directly; but the resulting readiness of the limb muscles for extreme activity is sometimes sensed as a feeling of tremendous muscular power.
The adrenal secretion also protects them in some way against fatigue.
The rapid secretion of the adrenal glands during anger is itself aroused by the nerve running to this gland.
What is more likely than that individuals differ in the strength of their adrenal secretion or in the readiness with which the glands are aroused to pour it out into the circulation?
But let an anger stimulus occur, and within a few seconds the adrenals are secreting rapidly; all the organs soon get a big dose of the adrenal secretion, and some of them are strongly affected by it.
In the normal or neutral state of the organism, the adrenal secretion oozes slowly into the blood, and has a tonic influence on the heart and muscles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adrenal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
