单词 | adrenogenital syndrome |
释义 | > as lemmasadrenogenital syndrome adrenogenital adj. Brit. /əˌdriːnəʊˈdʒɛnᵻtl/ , /əˌdrɛnəʊˈdʒɛnᵻtl/ , U.S. /əˌdrinoʊˈdʒɛnəd(ə)l/ , /əˌdrɛnoʊˈdʒɛnəd(ə)l/ Medicine of or relating to the adrenal glands and the genitals; spec. (esp. in adrenogenital syndrome) designating a group of disorders in which abnormal production of steroid hormones by the adrenal cortex results in abnormalities of (usually secondary) sexual characteristics, esp. the virilization of females.ΚΠ 1931 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 May 746/1 The accentuation of the male secondary sexual characters..may be most aptly described under the heading of ‘Virilism’, rather than..as the ‘Adreno-genital syndrome’. 1960 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 5 284/2 Inborn errors of metabolism associated with cardiovascular disease, such as diabetes,..adrenogenital hyperplasia associated with hypertension and primary hypercholesterolemia, etc. 2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex iv. 411 In those days he saw mostly kids with adrenogenital syndrome, the most common form of female hermaphroditism. 2005 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1061 109 It has been suggested that adrenocortical cells and fetal Leydig cells may share a common adrenogenital primordium. < as lemmas |
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