different between steroid vs gonadarche

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

Noun

gonadarche (uncountable)

1. The earliest gonadal changes of puberty, when (in response to pituitary gonadotropins), the ovaries in girls and the testes in boys begin to grow and increase the production of the sex steroids, especially estradiol and testosterone.

Related terms

• menarche
• spermarche
• thelarche