endocrinal

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English

Etymology

From endocrine +‎ -al.

Adjective

endocrinal (not comparable)

  1. endocrine
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.
    • 2009 April 16, Matthew L. Wald, “E.P.A. To Order Pesticide Testing”, in New York Times:
      The agency said that the 67 pesticides were chosen because humans and animals are widely exposed to them, not because they are necessarily the most likely disruptors of endocrinal functions.

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