Definition of "endocrinology" [endocrinology]

• The study of the glands and hormones of the body and their related disorders. (noun)

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• "Our Center includes a team of specialists in endocrinology, pediatric surgery, pathology and interventional radiology who have long experience in treating infants with this condition."
• "Just the previous year I called him to apply for a fellowship in endocrinology at Washington University."
• "During these five years of medical studies, I had always been interested in endocrinology, probably because two of my best teachers of clinical medicine, P. Etienne-Martin and J. Charpy were themselves interested in what were in those days the early concepts of endocrinology and the beginning logical therapy it appeared to offer."