What does endocrinology means please ?

Study of hormones: From medicinenet.Com: the study of the medical aspects of hormones, including diseases and conditions associated with hormonal imbalance, damage to the glands that make hormones, or the use of synthetic or natural hormonal drugs. An endocrinologist is a physician who specializes in the management of hormone conditions.

Hormones: Endocrinoogy is the subspecialty of internal medicine that studies the organs that control hormones. Thyroid, pancreas, adrenal, pituitary, ovaries, testes, etc.....

Answer: Your body as two types of gland : endocrine : where the hormone secreted by the organ is liberated into the blood stream directly and exocrine when it exit by a canal duct. Endocrinology is the study of the gland and their hormones.

Study of hormones: Endocrinology is the medical sub specialty of hormone and metabolism diseases. Much of what we do is related to diabetes and thyroid disease because these problems are more common.

Medical SpecialityOF: Medical speciality of diseases of Endocrine glands.It includes Diabetes,Thyroid ,Parathyroid,Adrenals,Pituatary,Testis,Ovaries Endocrinologists diagnose and treat the diseases and disorders of Endocrine Glands

Hormone doc: That is a physician who treats the hormone glands in the body. Most often they treat diabetes, pitutary, thyroid adrenal, gonadal and bone/calcium disorders.