cortisone

Converse of object

• produce: When too much ACTH is produced, the adrenal glands produce too much cortisone.

Adjective modifier

• inactive: This metabolizes the relatively active cortisol to the inactive cortisone.

Modifies a noun

• injection: I was given cortisone injections; a dozen at a time in my head, which hurts a lot trust me.
• shot: Pain was still there in November, saw a Doc who gave me cortisone shots in both knees.
• acetate: Cortisone acetate must be converted by the body into an active steroid, and the efficiency of conversion may vary between patients.
• cream: On any open sores use hydro cortisone cream to stop itching.
• dose: There will often be a point, many years into the disease, when higher cortisone doses are required.
• treatment: This stimulates the body to produce more steroids from the adrenal glands ) and cortisone treatment.

Preposition: by

• gland: Cushings Disease - This is a disease that occurs from the overproduction of cortisone by the adrenal glands.

Noun used with modifier

• steroid: This time the results of treatment with heparin and/or the steroid cortisone were studied.
• hormone: Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone.