cortisone
可的松,可体松,可替松,可待因
Definitions
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- : Biochemistry. a steroid hormone of the adrenal cortex, C21H28O5, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- : Pharmacology. a commercial form of this compound, obtained by extraction from the adrenal glands of certain domesticated animals or produced synthetically, used chiefly in the treatment of arthritis, rheumatic fever, certain allergies, and other systemic conditions.
Examples
Mamerow started her treatment with a battery of painful cortisone injections in her scalp every six to eight weeks.
A doctor comes to his house and gives him shots of cortisone to calm the arthritic pain in his knees.
Before that final game, the Birds suggested that Palmer take a cortisone shot in his shoulder, which, that week, had become sore.
With Dan and the other crewmembers back, did you feel the show got the cortisone shot it needed to run smoothly again?
Players routinely are pushed and pulled, kneaded and given cortisone shots to get that sprained shoulder ready.
“Lance responded that he had taken EPO, testosterone, growth hormone, cortisone, and steroids,” she says.
Anything else I said would be hearsay, and I understand that he did receive some cortisone.