Word: parathyroids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glands, and organs such as liver and kidneys) into human beings to correct dwarfism, tetany,* and other disorders resulting from underactive glands. But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation. So Niehans injected a mass of cells from the parathyroid gland of a freshly slaughtered calf...
...Muscular spasms, often caused by defective parathyroid glands...
...Parathyroid glands...