Following Workup for Symptoms of Decreased Libido and Erectile Dysfunction

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Essay

Following workup for symptoms of decreased libido and erectile dysfunction, a patient is told that his pituitary is hypersecreting prolactin. Is there need for concern about this young man?

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Definitions:

Chromosomes

In the cell nucleus, the structures, visible during cellular division, containing long strands of DNA combined with a protein.

Analogous

Similar or comparable in certain aspects, typically in a way that allows for a comparison or analogy to be made between different things.

Uniformitarianism

The principle that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere.

Catastrophism

The theory that Earth has been affected in the past by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope.