cortisone
IPA: kˈɔrtʌzoʊn
noun
- (biochemistry, steroids, pharmacology) A corticosteroid hormone, closely related to corticosterone, produced by the adrenal cortex. One of the glucocorticoids, it is also made synthetically for use as an anti-inflammatory and antiallergy agent. 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone, with formula C₂₁H₂₈O₅.
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Examples of "cortisone" in Sentences
- The cortisone is included as an anti inflammatory.
- An example is the industrial production of cortisone.
- Discoverer of cortisone and co discoverer of insulin.
- It is often combined with monthly cortisone injections.
- Likewise psoriasis is no cortisone deficiency syndrome.
- He was credited for the discovery of the hormone Cortisone.
- It is a combination antibiotic and cortisone like medicine.
- To medical scientists, cortisone is just as exciting in its possibilities as atomic power is to the physical scientist.
- If a baby isn't growing very well, one of its options is to turn on its cortisone, which is the stress response system.
- Corticosteroids, also called cortisone, corticoids, or steroids, represent a powerful and commonly used therapy for allergies 4.
- Now Casey plans to get another cortisone shot to try to get inflammation out of the shoulder and do a lot of strengthening exercises.
- The typical way to get rid of the inflammation of eczema is to use an anti-inflammatory, in other words a cortisone, to bring the inflammation down.
- In situations of considerable stress, our adrenal glands produce adrenaline and a group of hormones that I have called "corticoids"; of these, cortisone is perhaps the best known.
- Called a cortisone alternative by the manufacturer, Florasone and Psoriaflora creams by Boericke & Tafel Homeopathics are clinically proven to significantly reduce the itching and flaking of rashes, allergies, and psoriasis.
- Patients with symptoms that do not improve or are not expected to respond to NSAIDs or antimalarials may be put on corticosteroids, a class of drugs related to cortisone, which is one of the hormones produced by the adrenal gland.
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