Usage examples (13)

• corticoid steroid eye drops are often used; however, long-term corticoid use has many negative side effects, including the possible development of glaucoma.
• Too high a corticoid level inhibits ACTH production, which in turn allows the corticoid level to drop.
• The production of MSH by the pituitary is, like the production of ACTH, stimulated by low corticoid levels.
• As corticoid production falls with destruction of the adrenal cortex in Addison's disease, ACTH rises to considerable (but useless) heights.