either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney
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of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions
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near the kidneys
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Adrenal \Ad*re"nal\, a. [Pref. ad- + renal.] (Anat.) Suprarenal.
Or the growing use of organ transplants, such as the transplant of adrenal glands as a possible treatment for Parkinson's patients.
Zbar and Macdonald said that p53 is missing or mutated in a several types of cancer _ including brain, bone, breast and adrenal carcinoma _ and that the Hopkins study may also apply to those cancers.
To improve the outcome, doctors are considering using adrenal glands from young kidney donors, or from fetuses.
In January, Dr. Ignacio Madrazo and colleagues from La Raza Medical Center in Mexico City said they obtained dramatic results after transplanting brain and adrenal tissue from a spontaneously aborted fetus into two Parkinson's victims.
The university performed the nation's first adrenal tissue transplant in April 1987.
X," I might begin, "you unfortunately have a rare cancer of the adrenal gland.