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endocrinology

noun

en·​do·​cri·​nol·​o·​gy ˌen-də-kri-ˈnä-lə-jē How to pronounce endocrinology (audio)
-ˌkrī-
: a branch of medicine concerned with the structure, function, and disorders of the endocrine glands
endocrinologist noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web It was ranked 29th for diabetes and endocrinology; 30th in the U.S. for cancer care; 36th in neurology and neurosurgery; 45th in orthopedics; 41st for gastroenterology surgery and gastrointestinal surgery; and 47th in obstetrics and gynecology. Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2022 On the other side of San Francisco Bay, Ariana’s mother, who learned those lifesaving skills during her OB-GYN residency, now practices reproductive endocrinology. Kellen Mermin-bunnell And Ariana M. Traub, STAT, 13 July 2022 It was ranked second in the nation for neonatology, diabetes and endocrinology, and cardiology and heart surgery, and was ranked third for gastroenterology and GI surgery, pulmonology and lung surgery. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022 The main specialties of gender-affirming care — endocrinology and plastic surgery — were founded in the early 1900s, not as a means of transmogrifying gender but rather as tools for reifying it. New York Times, 10 May 2022 Intensive therapy that continued for a full two weeks after delivery eventually turned the situation around, but not without a cross-discipline effort that included specialists in cardiology, nephrology, endocrinology and neonatology. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2022 What’s more, the innovation that the team applied enabled them to discover that this same method is adaptable for other infectious diseases as well as for early detection screening of various cancers and other endocrinology disorders. Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 3 May 2022 The problem with aging Dr. Rajagopal Viswanath Sekhar, an associate professor of medicine-endocrinology at Baylor College of Medicine, says that mitochondria can play a vital role in slowing down aging. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Mar. 2022 During his time at Tufts, he became known as an accomplished investigator in endocrinology as well as for his work in academic health planning. Mark Pratt, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

probably borrowed from Italian endocrinologia, from endocrine endocrine entry 1 + -o- -o- + -logia -logy

Note: According to some sources coined by the Italian physician Nicola Pende (1880-1970) in 1909 (e.g., in Garabed Eknoyan, "Emergence of the concept of endocrine function and endocrinology," Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, vol. 11, no. 4 [October, 2004], p. 375), though without bibliographic citation. Pende used the word in the title of his treatise Endocrinologia: patologia e clinica degli organi a secrezione interna (Milan and Bologna, 1916).

First Known Use

circa 1913, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of endocrinology was circa 1913
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