pituitary extract
Britishnoun
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Dr. Adolph Edward Roome Jr., his father, corpulent Los Angeles physician, who wanted to administer pituitary extract to make his son stop growing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scientific research into the pituitary was not pushed until the 1920s, when Herbert McLean Evans of the University of California caused rats to become giants by injecting them with crude pituitary extract.
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
Umbaugh perfected a process of "super-ovulation"�injecting the cows with a pituitary extract which causes them to produce an average of 23 ova.
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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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