different between steroid vs diosgenin

English

Etymology

sterol +? -oid

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??d
• IPA^(key): /?st????d/, /?st?????d/

Noun

steroid (plural steroids)

1. (biochemistry, organic chemistry) A class of organic compounds having a structure of 17 carbon atoms arranged in four rings; they are lipids, and occur naturally as sterols, bile acids, adrenal and sex hormones, and some vitamins; many drugs are synthetic steroids.
2. (bodybuilding, sports) Any anabolic hormone used to promote muscle growth or athletic performance.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:steroid

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• destroi, doiters, editors, oestrid, ostreid, roisted, sortied, storied, tie rods, tierods, triodes

Czech

Noun

steroid m

1. steroid

Further reading

• steroid in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• steroid in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
• steroid in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Romanian

Etymology

From French stéroïde

Noun

steroid m (plural steroizi)

1. steroid

Declension

English

Etymology

From Dios(corea) + genin, after German Diosgenin.

Noun

diosgenin (countable and uncountable, plural diosgenins)

1. (organic chemistry) A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 547:

     Obtaining adequate quantities of hormonal substances for research was impossible, however, until the early 1940s, when Russell E. Marker (1902–95) found that he could extract diosgenin from a wild yam growing in Mexico […]

Anagrams

• denoising