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Adrenal Gland

If one adrena...

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If one adrenal gland is removed, the other one gets enlarged to some extent. How do you explain this change ?

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If one adrenal gland is removed, the other one gets enlarged. This is because one dysfunctional adrenal gland puts additional pressure to the functional gland to meet the added requirement of hormones required by the .

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