pituitary extract
Britishnoun
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The scientists experimented with dogs, gave some of them injections of anterior pituitary extract until their islets were worn out and their insulin content very low.
From Time Magazine Archive
Umbaugh perfected a process of "super-ovulation"�injecting the cows with a pituitary extract which causes them to produce an average of 23 ova.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long since decided that some doctors are good nurses, some good midwives, some good butchers: but few have any business in doing more than squirting pituitary extract in a to-be mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
Injections of pituitary extract directly into the blood stream were tried at first, but they caused disagreeable reactions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He finds that pituitary extract "can cause dangerous rise of blood pressure."
From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)
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