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For many of us, medical and health insurance terms are unfamiliar or complex. Our glossaries define some of those terms.


		Hypopituitarism (dwarfism) A condition resulting from diminished secretion of pituitary hormones, especially those of the anterior lobe. The condition of being abnormally small. It may be hereditary or a result of endocrine dysfunction, deficiency diseases, renal insufficiency, diseases of the skeleton or of other causes.

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