Another name for hormone therapy. Some cancers need hormones to help them grow and multiply. Hormones are substances that occur naturally in the body. Hormone therapy is a treatment that changes the level of hormones in the body, or blocks hormones so that they can't help cancer cells to grow. See hormone therapy section.

Manipulation of hormones for therapeutic purposes. ( See also hormone therapy). Engorgement (breast): Breast swelling that can occur when the breasts produce more milk than the amount that is being expelled by breast-feeding, pumping, or manual (hand) expression. A common problem for breast-feeding mothers, especially during the first two to five days after childbirth.