Word: ductless
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...Berman carries his fluent discourse into the foundations of normal humanity, elucidating the roles played in the body's character and development by the other ductless glands?the pituitary, adrenal, thymus glands and the gonads. He pictures the glands as an "interlocking directorate," traces the mechanics of masculine and feminine, the rhythms of sex, the backgrounds of personality. He proposes that "the individual...
...McMurrich predicted a great expansion of activity and knowledge in the fields of eugenics and the physiology of ductless glands. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the University of Cincinnati...
...Riddle also announced the discovery of a hitherto unknown function of the thymus, a ductless gland prominent in young children (TIME, June 25), which atrophies at adolescence. A deficiency of thymus in female pigeons prevents their providing their eggs with shells and albumen. If they are fed doses of dried thymus, the eggs become normal...
...Olga Bridgman announced that she had discovered a means of transforming idiots into high grade morons. No details were given, aside from the fact that the treatment is applied to the thyroid glands and is declared effective only in cases of idiocy resulting from irregular secretions from the ductless glands...
...Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), Swiss, director of surgical clinic, University of Berne, expert in surgery of thyroid and other ductless glands and of exophthalmic goiter...