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Gerovital
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Gerovital Gerovital H3 is a controversial preparation, developed during the 1950s in Romania by Dr. Ana Aslan (1896?–May 20, 1988) It was and is promoted by its advocates as an effective anti-aging treatment. During Gerovital's "jet-set" heyday, Dr. Aslan's clinic gave Gerovital treatments to a stellar array of celebrities and dignitaries
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Gerovital
Gerovital H3 is a controversial preparation, developed during the 1950s in Romania by Dr. Ana Aslan (1896?–May 20, 1988) It was and is promoted by its advocates as an effective anti-aging treatment. During Gerovital's "jet-set" heyday, Dr. Aslan's clinic gave Gerovital treatments to a stellar array of celebrities and dignitaries
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Gerontalism
Impersonating an older person and being treated as one by a partner--one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias.
Gerontological research
The study and research that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people.
Gerontology
The science of aging and age-related phenomena.
Gerontophilia
A paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which the partner must be parental or grandparental in age. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which a younger person must impersonate a parent or grandparent is paraphilic. 2. The condition in which a young adult is responsive to and dependent on erotic/sexual activity with a much older partner in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm.
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Gonads
Ovaries and testes.
GnRH
GnRH or gonadotropin-releasing hormone is a naturally occurring hormone that stimulates the release of other hormones that affect the ovaries and menstrual cycle.
Graves Disease
Graves-Basedow disease is an autoimmune disorder that stimulates the thyroid gland, being the most common cause of hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid). Also known in the English-speaking world simply as Graves' disease, it occurs most frequently in women (8:1 compared to men) of middle age. Symptoms include fatigue, weight loss and rapid heart beat. Because similar antibodies to those stimulating the thyroid also affect the eye, eye symptoms are also commonly reported.
Graves-Basedow Disease
See Graves Disease.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS), is an acquired immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system (i.e. not the brain or spinal cord). It is also called acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, acute idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis, acute idiopathic polyneuritis and Landry's ascending paralysis
Gerovital
Gene therapy
Using genes inserted into the patient's body or tumor to stimulate the immune system to fight cancer.
Gynecologic Oncology
The study and treatment of cancers of the female reproductive organs.
Ganglion
A cluster of nerve cells.
Gray matter
The darker-colored tissues of the central nervous system; in the brain, the gray matter includes the cerebral cortex, the thalamus, the basal ganglia, and the outer layers of the cerebellum.
GTR
Guided tissue regeneration. A new technique for replacing bone tissue.
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Gerovital
Gerovital H3 is a controversial preparation, developed during the 1950s in Romania by Dr. Ana Aslan (1896?–May 20, 1988) It was and is promoted by its advocates as an effective anti-aging treatment. During Gerovital's "jet-set" heyday, Dr. Aslan's clinic gave Gerovital treatments to a stellar array of celebrities and dignitaries
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Gerontalism
Impersonating an older person and being treated as one by a partner--one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias.
Gerontological research
The study and research that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people.
Gerontology
The science of aging and age-related phenomena.
Gerontophilia
A paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which the partner must be parental or grandparental in age. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which a younger person must impersonate a parent or grandparent is paraphilic. 2. The condition in which a young adult is responsive to and dependent on erotic/sexual activity with a much older partner in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Gonads
Ovaries and testes.
GnRH
GnRH or gonadotropin-releasing hormone is a naturally occurring hormone that stimulates the release of other hormones that affect the ovaries and menstrual cycle.
Graves Disease
Graves-Basedow disease is an autoimmune disorder that stimulates the thyroid gland, being the most common cause of hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid). Also known in the English-speaking world simply as Graves' disease, it occurs most frequently in women (8:1 compared to men) of middle age. Symptoms include fatigue, weight loss and rapid heart beat. Because similar antibodies to those stimulating the thyroid also affect the eye, eye symptoms are also commonly reported.
Graves-Basedow Disease
See Graves Disease.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS), is an acquired immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system (i.e. not the brain or spinal cord). It is also called acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, acute idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis, acute idiopathic polyneuritis and Landry's ascending paralysis
Gerovital
Gene therapy
Using genes inserted into the patient's body or tumor to stimulate the immune system to fight cancer.
Gynecologic Oncology
The study and treatment of cancers of the female reproductive organs.
Ganglion
A cluster of nerve cells.
Gray matter
The darker-colored tissues of the central nervous system; in the brain, the gray matter includes the cerebral cortex, the thalamus, the basal ganglia, and the outer layers of the cerebellum.
GTR
Guided tissue regeneration. A new technique for replacing bone tissue.
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