Cushingâs syndrome is the name of a disorder that occurs when the body is exposed to an excess of steroids such as the hormone cortisol or similar synthetic versions. The body produces too much cortisol hormone by itself (known as âendogenousâ Cushingâs syndrome).
A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it.
In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation. 1  3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.