Etymological rummagings in the wonderful world of medicine
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adrenaline:also known as epinephrine [G: epi = upon + nephros = kidney] [L: ad = to + ren = kidney] (so the derivation of these words is similar after all) it is made by the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla | |
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