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Help me relate acromegaly,prolactinoma,pituit... and dwarfism with their effect to the society


Help me relate acromegaly,prolactinoma,pituit... and dwarfism with their effect to the society

They help give endocrinologists a job.

Acromegaly is a hormonal disorder that results when the pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone (hGH). Most commonly it begins when a GH producing tumor derived from a distinct type of cells (somatotrophs) and called pituitary adenoma.

A prolactinoma is a benign tumor (adenoma) of the pituitary gland that produces a hormone called prolactin. It is the most common type of pituitary tumor.

Dwarfism refers to a condition of extreme small size of a person, animal, or plant. Any type of marked human smallness could be termed dwarfism in older popular and medical usage. The term as related to human beings (the major subject of this article) is often used to refer specifically to those forms of extreme shortness characterized by disproportion of body parts, typically due to an inheritable disorder in bone or cartilage development.

Forms of extreme shortness characterized by proportional body parts usually have a hormonal or nutritional cause. An example is growth hormone deficiency, once known as "pituitary dwarfism".

You're talking about some fairly complex and fairly rare stuff here. You could try wikipedia - when I looked up acromegaly, it gave famous "sufferers" of this. Then you could connect that to the rest of society, or at least have more information to do so.

acromegaly link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly

Good luck! (:

Since no one else is going to answer your question, I will. Acromegaly, prolactinoma, pituitary disorders and dwarfism really have no significant effect on society in general. There's nothing to "relate". The end.

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