hormone

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hormone ACTH adrenocorticotropic hormone antidiuretic hormone brain hormone corticotropin-releasing hormone female hormone follicle-stimulating hormone gonadotropin-releasing hormone growth hormone growth hormone-releasing hormone hormone replacement therapy human growth hormone hypothalamic releasing factor interstitial-cell stimulating hormone lactogenic hormone luteinizing hormone luteinizing hormone-releasing factor luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone luteotropic hormone melanocyte-stimulating hormone melanophore-stimulating hormone parathyroid hormone plant hormone prolactin sex hormone somatotropic hormone steroid hormone thyroid hormone thyroid-stimulating hormone thyrotropic hormone thyrotropin-releasing hormone vasopressin

Main Entry: hor·mone
Pronunciation: hr-mn
Function: noun
1 a : a product of living cells that circulates in body fluids (as blood) or sap and produces a specific often stimulatory effect on the activity of cells usually remote from its point of origin -- called also internal secretion -- see PLANT HORMONE b : a synthetic substance that acts like a hormone
2 : SEX HORMONE
- hor·mone·like /-lk/ adjective