internal secretion
Britishnoun
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At the same time, the theory supposes** that the testes form an internal secretion.
From Time Magazine Archive
This substance from oxen glands will cure the serious condition known as parathyroid tetany, which is due to an insufficiency of the parathyroid internal secretion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pancreas is such a gland, and it is the internal secretion of the pancreas, distinct from the pancreatic juice, from which insulin, the diabetes specific, is derived.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same internal secretion is concerned in both.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
The best example that can be cited of the effect of this internal secretion is the male of the horse kind.
From The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male by Hall, Winfield Scott
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