corticosteroid

Converse of object

• inhale: For more on inhaled corticosteroids, read our article.
• administer: It is controversial whether administering corticosteroids to a premature foal is beneficial.
• induce: The prevention of corticosteroid induced bone loss with intermittent cyclical etidronate.
• prescribe: In this case, your doctor may be able to prescribe a corticosteroid to help relieve the irritation.
• contain: Most preventer inhalers contain corticosteroids, which are similar to natural hormones produced in the body.

Preposition: in

• injury: Very soon there will be more patients in the CRASH trial than in all previous trials of corticosteroids in head injury combined.

Adjective modifier

• intranasal: A second small RCT found limited evidence that intranasal corticosteroids plus antibiotics improved symptoms compared with antibiotics alone.
• intralesional: What is the evidence for intralesional corticosteroids in alopecia areata?
• topical: Topical corticosteroids can be used safely by most people.
• systemic: In contrast with the investigation mentioned above patients were excluded that used local or systemic corticosteroids.
• potent: Compared with potent topical corticosteroids, no significant difference was shown.
• epidural: A meta-analysis on the efficacy of epidural corticosteroids in the treatment of sciatica.

Modifies a noun

• injection: Two of three trials showed corticosteroid injection to be better than NSAID.
• therapy: However, long-term corticosteroid therapy does more harm than good.
• hormone: Cushing's disease or syndrome is a hormonal disorder characterized by very high levels of corticosteroid hormones in the blood stream.
• tablet: Severe cases may need to be treated orally with corticosteroid tablets.
• cream: In more severe cases, corticosteroid creams may be prescribed.
• dose: In general these effects were observed earlier with Seretide compared to inhaled corticosteroid alone and at a lower inhaled corticosteroid dose.

Noun used with modifier

• high-dose: The symptoms of aseptic meningitis respond readily to high-dose corticosteroid treatment.
• dose: Patients who have required high dose emergency corticosteroid therapy in the past may also be at risk.