Hormone - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hormoneHormonal
of pertaining to or affected by hormones...
Hormone
A chemical substance formed in one organ and carried in the circulation to another organ on which it exerts a specific effect on cells at a distance from the producing cells thus pituitary hormones produced in the brain may have effects on cells in distant parts of the body...
juvenile hormone
A hormone secreted by insects which inhibits the molting of an insect from its juvenile into its adult form also substances having similar activity but produced by plants...
LH
An abbreviation for luteinizing hormone a gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the pituitary and stimulates ovulation in female mammals and stimulates androgen release in male mammals...
bradykinin
a hypotensive tissue hormone C50H73N15O11 which acts on smooth muscle dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process It is a nonapeptide with the sequence Arg Pro Pro Gly Phe Ser Pro Phe Arg...
circulating
moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point as steam circulating through the pipes the circulating thyroid hormones...
corticotrophin
a growth hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland it stimulates the adrenal cortex called also adrenocorticotropin and abbreviated ACTH...
cortisol
a steroid hormone C21H30O5 active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism called also hydrocortisone It is used in medicine as an antiinflammatory agent...
cortisone
a corticosteroid hormone C21H28O5 produced by the adrenal cortex It is used in medicine as an antiinflammatory agent...
Free martin
An imperfect female calf twinborn with a male which is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones...
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