2.) Endocrine: Secreting internally into the blood or lymph, of or pertaining to an endocrine gland or its secretion.
3.) Hypersensitivity: Excessively sensitive, allergic to a substance to which persons do not normally react.
4.) Caesarean: surgery, a short word for Caesarean section.
5.) Intrauterine: located or occurring within the uterus/ womb.
6.) Uterine: Of or pertaining to the uterus or womb, related through having had the same mother.
7.) Puberty: The period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring, in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
8.) Virulent: Actively poisonous; intensely noxious, highly infective, causing clinical symptoms; violently or spitefully hostile, intensely bitter, spiteful, or malicious.
9.) DES: used in French names as a contraction of de and the article les.
10.) Circumstantial: of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances, of the nature of a circumstance, secondary, incidental, dealing with or giving circumstances, detailed, particular, pertaining to conditions of material welfare.
11.) Thyroiditis: Inflammation of the thyroid gland.
12.) Androgens: Any substance, as testosterone or anderosterone, that promotes male characteristics.
The definition of these terms are very helpful while reading because they help me as well as other readers to comprehend what they are reading. Since some of these terms are unknown to us we tend to skip them without knowing that they are an important part of the reading, and that we are missing part of it because we don't get it.
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