Word: ductless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riley believes that most cases of migraine can be traced to malfunctions of the ductless glands, notably the pituitary and the ovaries. The hormones (messengers) of those glands, he believes, give mischievous information to the nerves which control the contraction & expansion of the brain's arteries. Consequently those arteries go into periodic convulsions. The convulsions make the headache...
...spleen, or milt, is a ductless gland 2½ by 4½ in. lying under the lower left ribs. It does not seem to have any particular secretion like other ductless glands, its value to the body is not well understood. In unborn children its chief duty seems to be to help make red blood cells. Destroying worn-out and useless blood cells seems to be its prime function after birth. It may be cut out with apparently only transient inconvenience to the person. When ruptured it must come out quickly...
...Making the gonads practically ductless by partly disabling them (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929 et ante). †Supplanting the testes by the testes of other men or animals (TIME, Sept. 15. 1930 et ante...
Adolph Roome III, 14, more than 6 ft. tall, weight 235 lb., overgrown apparently from the disfunction of his pituitary body, a ductless gland which controls growth...
...Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit manufacturing druggists, merit some credit for this discovery. Dr. Pfiffner worked for them as a research chemist. His superior was Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke, Davis' Chemical Research Laboratory. Dr. Kamm isolated two hormones of another ductless gland, the pituitary (TIME...