Definition of "endocrinal"

That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959

The agency said that the 67 pesticides were chosen because humans and animals are widely exposed to them, not because they are necessarily the most likely disruptors of endocrinal functions.

2009 April 16, Matthew L. Wald, “E.P.A. To Order Pesticide Testing”, in New York Times‎