different between hormone vs aleptinemia
hormone
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (horm?, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”), whence ????? (hormá?), ???? (hormô, “to set in motion, to urge on, to cheer on, to make a start, to hasten on”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??m??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h???mo?n/
Noun
hormone (plural hormones)
- (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
- (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
- Any similar substance in plants.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:hormone
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)
- (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones.
Anagrams
- moorhen
French
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /??.m?n/
Noun
hormone f (plural hormones)
- hormone
Derived terms
- hormonal
Further reading
- “hormone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
hormone (plural hormones)
- Alternative form of hormon.
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aleptinemia
English
Etymology
a- +? leptin +? -emia; compare the more common hypoleptinemia.
Noun
aleptinemia (uncountable)
- (rare, medicine) The absence of the hormone leptin in the bloodstream
- 2002 May 15, D.B. Savage and S. O’Rahilly, “Leptin: a novel therapeutic role in lipodystrophy”, in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, volume 109, issue 10, pages 1285-6:
- Thus, we now know of two distinct human diseases where the correction of near aleptinemia is of major therapeutic benefit.
- 2002 May 15, D.B. Savage and S. O’Rahilly, “Leptin: a novel therapeutic role in lipodystrophy”, in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, volume 109, issue 10, pages 1285-6:
Anagrams
- leptinaemia
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