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Definition of Hyperfunction
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperfunction
Literary usage of Hyperfunction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Vital Function Testing Methods and Their Interpretation by Wilfred Mason Barton (1917)
"hyperfunction of the Suprarenal Glands Just what morbid conditions are associated
with or produced by hyperfunction of the adrenals is by no means clearly ..."
2. Internal Secretion and the Ductless Glands by Swale Vincent (1912)
"Other Conditions involving Pituitary hyperfunction. There are reasons for thinking
that many forms of gigantism are due to hyperfunction of the pituitary, ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"hyperfunction of the Adrenals We have seen that the major emotions are accompanied
by a discharge of epinephrin from the adrenal glands and that this ..."
4. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"The latter is found in the disease of hyperfunction of the glandular hypophysis,
of the thyroid gland, and the suprarenal cortex; while in the sexual glands ..."
5. Endocrine Glands and the Sympathetic System by Pierre Lereboullet (1922)
"These symptoms of intolerance are more frequent in adults than in children.
THE SYNDROMES OF hyperfunction OF THE THYROID. ..."
6. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"hyperfunction.—An excessive or hyperfunction of a gland of ... Further evidence
of hyperfunction is furnished by the results of operative removal of a part ..."
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