adrenal gland
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- noun
- /əˈdrɛnəl ɡlænd/
- Specialized
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glándula adrenal
- Doctors study the adrenal gland because it plays a crucial role in hormone production and stress management.
OK, so too much cold starts to pull from those adrenal glands.
- OK, so too much cold starts to pull from those adrenal glands.
- I think there's also a huge influence from stress and like the development of the adrenal glands.
- So after menopause, women make progesterone from their ovaries or sorry from their adrenal glands.
- Coconut products like coconut oil, coconut milk, coconut meat, those are great for supporting your adrenal glands.
- It's made by your adrenal glands, and it helps us manage stress and deal with inflammation.
Examples
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The adrenal gland produces hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, which are essential for managing stress.
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When you're under pressure, your adrenal glands release cortisol to help your body respond.
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This is the adrenal gland.
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Once, during an operation on an adrenal gland, he damaged a major blood vessel.
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It's made by your adrenal glands, and it helps us manage stress and deal with inflammation.
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That's when symptoms may crop up, usually due to stress on the adrenal glands.
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Stress triggers the adrenal glands to produce chemicals, one of which is called cortisol.
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And what we know is that the adrenal glands secrete epinephrine and norepinephrine.
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Norepinephrine is a hormone produced by the adrenal gland along with epinephrine (adrenaline).
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Much more seriously, he suffered from Addison's disease, a sometimes hereditary autoimmune illness of the adrenal glands that causes several potentially lethal consequences and makes its victims particularly susceptible to infection.
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Synonyms
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A small gland above the kidney that makes hormones like adrenaline and cortisol
A gland above each kidney that makes hormones, also called the adrenal gland
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'adrenal' specifies a particular endocrine organ and 'gland' denotes an organ that secretes hormones, so 'adrenal gland' straightforwardly means the gland that is adrenal/above the kidney. This noun–noun naming pattern is common cross‑linguistically and follows standard English compounding, so a learner who knows both constituents would understand the phrase.
Etymology
The compound adrenal gland comes from Latin parts ad- (meaning 'near') and renal (from a word for 'kidney'), so it literally means the gland 'near' the kidney. That's why the small glands that sit on top of each kidney are called adrenal glands and are known for making hormones like adrenaline that help the body deal with stress.