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endocrinology

endocrinology

4 7.2
The study of hormones, the glands that make them, and related illnesses
  • noun
  • /ˌɛndəˌkraɪˈnɑlədʒi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : endocrinología
  • Dr. Smith specializes in endocrinology, focusing on hormonal disorders and their treatments.
  • Reproductive Endocrinology

This study was published in Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity.

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Examples

  • I'm a professor of endocrinology at Harvard Medical School.

  • I'm a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology.

  • This study was published in Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity.

  • We also know a great deal about their endocrinology, physiology, and development, and so have good ways of monitoring their general health.

    Academic text (2002)
  • I have a Ph.D. in biochemistry and endocrinology.

  • Their results were published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in 2001.

    Academic text (2006)
  • While undertaking his fellowship training in endocrinology at the University of Minnesota, he focused his studies on the apolipoprotein A-I gene.

    Blog text (1)
  • The data set included 250 general practitioners and 250 specialists in the fields of dermatology, allergy, endocrinology, and psychiatry.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Others, like Saadia Basharat, a third-year PhD in Endocrinology at Imperial College, had more general aims of learning about research commercialization.

    Blog text (31)
  • Brochures were mailed to physicians specializing in family practice, internal medicine, endocrinology, orthopaedics, and geriatrics.

    Academic text (2003)

How Specialized

neuroendocrinology
  • Specialized
1 8.8
endocrinology
  • Specialized
4 7.2
biology
251 2.5
science
2.3

Surface Forms

endocrinology singular

Morphology

endocrinology = endocrine (semi-transparent) = endo + crin + logy

The word is a regular scientific formation from the specialized base 'endocrine' plus '-logy', but the base itself is technical and not strongly transparent for general learners.

Etymology

Endocrinology comes from Greek parts endo- meaning 'within', -crine meaning 'to secrete', and -ology meaning 'study of'. So endocrinology is the study of the glands that release hormones inside the body.