hormone
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See also: Hormone
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hormone (plural hormones)
- (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 165:
- Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.
- (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
- (LGBT, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.
- I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.
- (LGBT, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.
- (botany) Any similar substance in plants.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:hormone
Derived terms
- adipohormone
- adrenocorticotropic hormone
- allohormone
- antidiuretic hormone
- antihormone
- anti-Müllerian hormone
- caudodorsal cell hormone
- corticotropin-releasing hormone
- dorsal body hormone
- ectohormone
- enterohormone
- follicle stimulating hormone
- follicle-stimulating hormone
- gonadotropin-releasing hormone
- growth hormone
- hormonal
- hormonelike
- hormone replacement therapy
- hormone-replacement therapy
- hormones
- hormone therapy
- juvenile hormone
- light green cell hormone
- luteinising hormone
- luteinizing hormone
- melanocyte-stimulating hormone
- 'mones
- mones
- multihormone
- necrohormone
- neurohormone
- neurohypophysis hormone
- nonhormone
- parahormone
- parathormone
- parathyroid hormone
- phytohormone
- plant hormone
- prehormone
- preprohormone
- prohormone
- proteohormone
- prothoracicotropic hormone
- releasing hormone
- rooting hormone
- sex hormone
- thyroid hormone
- thyroid-stimulating hormone
- thyrotropic hormone
- thyrotropin-releasing hormone
- trophic hormone
- tropic hormone
- xenohormone
Translations
substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity
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synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone
a plant hormone
Verb
hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)
- (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones.
Translations
to treat with hormones
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hormone f (plural hormones)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “hormone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Interlingua
Noun
hormone (plural hormones)
- Alternative form of hormon.
Spanish
Verb
hormone
- inflection of hormonar: