Word: insipidus
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...There is a diabetes insipidus, where sugar is not excreted...
...does three things to a body: 1) it causes powerful contractions of the pregnant uterus at term (its oxytocic effect); 2) it makes blood pressure (its pressor effect); 3) it increases urinary flow where urine is scanty and decreases it where the flow is inordinately great, as in diabetes insipidus (its diuretic-anti-diuretic effect). So there must be more than one hormone in the pituitary gland, decided Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke. Davis & Co.'s research laboratories. By tedious fractional precipitation of pituitrin he has been able to separate two hormones−oxytocin useful in obstetrics. vasopressin...
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