cortisone in English

noun
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a hormone produced by the adrenal cortex. One of the glucocorticoids, it is also made synthetically for use as an anti-inflammatory and anti-allergy agent.
People who are constantly under stress have a high level of hormones like cortisone and adrenalin in their blood.

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1. Cortizone shots Cortizone Shots in my feet/heels side effects of cortisone tablets Body Produces Too Much Cortizone Cortizone injections, can they cause one to throw up blood? Normal activity after receiveing a cortisone shot? Are there any side effects of taking vicodin while receiving cortisone injections?

2. She gave me heat, she gave me cold, aspirin, narcotic painkillers, anti-inflammatories, cortisone shots.

3. In 1964 a doctor gave me cortisone and called my ailment peripheral neuritis.

4. The Adrenal cortex (outer part) makes steroid hormones (such as cortisone and aldosterone).

5. Really , it has an action on the cortisol cortisone conversion in the adrenals in our bodies .

6. Effects of ACTH and of cortisone upon Amputational wound healing processes in mice digits

7. ● You are a regular, long-term user of cortisone/steroid —used in some medical creams and asthma sprays

8. Corticosteroids, such as prednisone and cortisone, are a class of drugs that can effectively reduce inflammation

9. There is no specific therapy for MS, but many doctors use adrenocortical steroids such as cortisone.

10. Especially ulcerogenic in comparable dosage have been Triamcinolone, DOCA, Prednisone and Cortisone, less ulcerogenic Dexamethasone, Methylprednisolone and ACTH.

11. After discontinuation of azathioprine therapy and despite continuing therapy with cortisone, the KS progressed and autoantibody levels against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor increased.

12. If so, it may be that your physician will prescribe cortisone, which in its natural state is produced by the adrenal glands.

13. Corticosteroids (cortisone-like medicines) are used to provide relief for inflamed areas of the body. They lessen swelling, redness, itching, and allergic reactions

14. Corticosteroid definition, any of a class of steroids, as aldosterone, hydrocortisone, or cortisone, occurring in nature, especially as a product of the adrenal cortex, or synthesized

15. A cortisone injection can also be used to give short-term pain relief and reduce the swelling from inflammation of a joint, tendon, or bursa in, for example, the joints of the knee, elbow, and shoulder and into a broken coccyx.

16. Stressed ducklings exhibited signs of the General Adaptation Syndrome; namely, involution of the bursae of Fabricius and thymus glands, hypertrophy of the adrenal glands (except in those birds injected with cortisone), and retardation of growth.

17. Corticosteroid definition is - any of various steroid hormones (such as cortisol, cortisone, or aldosterone) that are produced by the adrenal cortex from cholesterol; also : any of various synthetic derivatives (such as prednisone or dexamethasone) of these steroid hormones that are used as drugs.

18. Gram-positive cocci were isolated from 79% of 57 Demodex-positive patients with blepharitis and 72% of 68 Demodex-negative patients anaerobes in 39% and 37%, gram-negative rods in 11% and 3% (statistically significant difference for gram-negative rods, α = 5%, χ2-test). Of the patients with Demodex, 25% apparently had no more parasites after mercury ointment, 2% (n = 8) and lindan (n = 5) and 15% after cortisone and antibiotics (n = 13). (The best and statistically very significant results (α = 1%) were those obtained with mercury ointment, 2%, and lindan: t-test for connected spot checks).