nanocormia

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noun

A form of dwarfism characterized by a very short trunk

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounnanocormia (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineA form of dwarfism characterized by a very short trunk
    2 more examples

    Since a purified form of hCGH was first isolated from human pituitary in 1956 (Li and Papkoff, Science, 124, 1293 (1956)), there have been made a large number of works on hGH to elucidate, e.g., the effect of hCGH on human metabo lism (Beck, J. C. et al., Science, 125, 884(1957)) and inhibitory activity of hCGH on pituitary nanocormia (Raben, M. S., J. Clin. Endocrinol., 18,901(1958)).

    2003, Se-Chang Kwon, Sung-youb Jung. Hoon Shin, Jay-Do Choi, Ki-Doo Choi, Gwan-Sun Lee, Modified E. coli enterotoxin II signal peptide and a microorganism expressing a fusion protein of a said peptide and a heterologous protein (US Patent US6605697B1)

    For instance, if electric stimulus is given to the ventromedial hypothalamic lesion (VMH) in hypothalamus regions, it causes an increase of the amount of food intake, and causes a decrease of energy expenditure, thus resulting in obesity; if the lateral hypothalamus (LH) is stimulated by electricity, food intake decreases and energy expenditure increases, which causes nanocormia and anorexia

    2011, D Han, S Kim, B Cho, “mRNA Expression on Neuropeptide Y (NPY) to Exercise Intensity and Recovery Time”, in Journal of Physical Therapy Science, volume 23, number 5

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekκορμός“trunk”
  2. Latincormus
  3. Englishnanocormia

From nano- (“dwarf”) + Latin cormus, Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk”).

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Translations

French nanocormie
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APA

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Chicago

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