Look up: Steroids

1. steroids
   Steroids are hormones, formed from cholesterol, which are produced by the adrenal glands. Synthetic steroids are used in a variety of therapies: to control respiratory problems, skin inflammation, ease joint inflammations, and to treat blood disorders.
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2. Steroids
   Compounds containing a 17-carbon, four-ring system.
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3. Steroids
   Substances made naturally in the body. Have many different uses, including the immune response. Steroids can now be made artificially and given as treatment in tablets or injections. In lymphomas they are given with chemotherapy as part of the treatment. They have side effects such as difficulty sle...
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4. Steroids
   Class of drugs, which includes cortisone or corticosteroids, which are used to reduce inflammation
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5. Steroids
   a group of drugs that includes corticosteroids, which resemble hormones produced by the adrenal glands, and anabolic steroids, which are similar to the hormones produced by the male sex organs
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6. Steroids
   Steroids are types of chemicals found naturally in the body. They are also produced artificially to treat diseases.
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7. Steroids
   Any one of a large number of hormone-like substances. See anabolic steroids and cortical steroids.
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8. steroids
   Synonym for corticosteroids ... A group of synthetic hormones including prednisone, prednisolone, methylprednisolone and dexamethasone used in the treatment of some leukaemias and also to suppress graft rejection and graft-versus-host disease following bone marrow transplant. Side effects include an...
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9. steroids
   steroids, class of lipids having a particular molecular ring structure called the cyclopentanoperhydro-phenanthrene ring system. Steroids differ from one another in the structure of various side chains and additional rings. Steroids are common in both plants and animals. In humans, steroids are secr...
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10. steroids
    Type: Term Pronunciation: stēr′oydz, ster- Definitions: 1. A large family of chemical substances, comprising many hormones, body constituents, and drugs, each containing the tetracyclic cyclopenta[a]phenanthrene skeleton. Stereoisomerism among steroids is not only common but of critical b...
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