pituitary dwarfism

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pituitary dwarfism

[pə′tü·ə‚ter·ē ′dwȯr‚fiz·əm]

(medicine)

Stunted growth due to a deficiency of the primary growth hormone; characterized clinically by growth failure in early life, and in older persons by deficient subcutaneous fat with loose, wrinkled skin and precocious senility.

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Human growth hormone, originally developed for the limited treatment of HgH deficient children with forms of pituitary dwarfism, has found questionable application in short-stature children and athletes in search of a nondetectable anabolic steroid.

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Sold under the trade name Abitropin, the drug has been used primarily to treat patients with pituitary dwarfism.

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Open Competition: Provision of services for organizations providing medicines for patients with malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, pituitary dwarfism, Gaucher~~s disease, multiple sclerosis, as well as after organ transplantation and (or) tissues.