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It is most extreme when the oversecretion of the hormone starts before puberty, when bones can still grow.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2022

So we find that pituitary types have, when there is oversecretion, large bony, gross hands, spade-shaped, or when there is undersecretion, hands that are plump, with peculiarly tapering fleshy fingers.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

In this way the tubes become choked and obstructed with the oversecretion or by swelling.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm

Also a train of symptoms similar to those evoked by an oversecretion of the thyroid may be mobilized by the taking of too much iodine.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

Normal secretion, oversecretion or undersecretion are thus adjusted, but leave a train of after effects.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.