if tumours on the pituitary gland can make people grow taller, why can’t medical science just stimulate this gland on dwarves and those with stunted growth as a form of correctional medicine?
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Pituitary dwarfism is a kind of dwarfism that can be treated with synthetic human growth hormone before a child’s growth plates have been fused. However, other forms of dwarfism are not caused by pituitary anomalies. Achondroplasia, for example, is a genetic condition where a protein functions abnormally, slowing the growth of bone in the cartilage of the growth plate. That makes the bones shorter and abnormally shaped.
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