Word: basal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hormone. Prolactin also inhibits the activity of the sex glands, which is obviously nature's way of quieting the distraction of sex urges when parental behavior and responsibility are called for. And either alone or in concert with other hormones, it maintains the weight of abdominal organs; controls basal metabolism (heat production) ; promotes appetite; and probably also affects the metabolism of carbohydrates...
Prolactin was found to induce mammary activity in virgin and castrated female and even in male animals; it induced parental behavior in birds and rats; it increased the basal metabolism (heat production) ; it seemed to affect carbohydrate metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release...
...area is responsible, when injured, for clouding, confusion and dementia. No other part of the brain, when injured, produces similar impairment of the mental faculties." According to Dr. Alford's findings, the fact "that the remainder of the brain may complement, complete and intensify the functions of these basal left-side structures does not alter the fundamental conclusion. Another point is that we may have been searching all these years in the wrong spots for the anatomical changes of mental disease, such as epilepsy and similar disorders...
...exophthalmic goitre. A rapid pulse, moist skin and loss of weight, despite a good appetite, suggest the disease. The patient is restless and irritable, laughs and cries easily, becomes angry and excited at the least provocation, is comparatively insensitive to cold. An unfailing test for exophthalmic goitre is the basal metabolism rate, measured by a simple breathing machine. If after a long rest in bed, her lungs consume 50% to 100% more oxygen than a normal person, the suspect undoubtedly has an overactive thyroid. Women are much more often afflicted than...
...Basal metabolism or cardiographs: $5. Xray...