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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.
hormone From the web:
- what hormone is released when a person is stressed
- what hormone triggers ovulation
- what hormones does the thyroid gland produce
- what hormones does the pancreas produce
- what hormones does the pituitary gland produce
- what hormones are released during sex
- what hormone causes acne
- what hormones does the hypothalamus produce
corticosterone
English
Noun
corticosterone (countable and uncountable, plural corticosterones)
- (biochemistry, steroids) A corticosteroid hormone, produced in the adrenal glands, involved in metabolism.
Italian
Etymology
cortico- +?
Noun
corticosterone m (plural corticosteroni)
- corticosterone
corticosterone From the web:
- what does corticosterone do
- what is corticosterone hormone
- what does corticosterone
- what causes corticosterone
- what is corticosterone release
- what is corticosterone birds
- what is corticosterone made of
- what makes corticosterone
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