1 If you have taken steroids for more than two weeks, even if you then stop, your body may have a decreased ability to respond to physical stress-because your adrenal glands may not react as they should normally. 2  This effect can last as long as a year after steroid discontinuation. Even if you develop a side effect that requires stopping or rapidly reducing your steroid therapy, you still need to taper the dose-never stopping or decreasing the dose abruptly. 2  The adverse effects of an abrupt decrease of steroid dose are often worse than the side effect you were concerned about.
Tec Ten Ter Teu TEU Twenty-foot equivalent unit It is a means of measuring the carrying capacity of container ships; e.g., a ship can be said to be capable of 3000 TEUs, which roughly equivalent to saying it could carry 3000 standard containers.
A remote terminal unit (RTU) is a microprocessor-controlled electronic device that interfaces objects in the physical world to a distributed control system or SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system by transmitting telemetry data to a master system, and by using messages from the master supervisory system to control connected objects ...