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Definition: ACTH |
ACTHNoun1. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Adrenocorticotropic hormone. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ACTH | Danish | Adreno-corticotrope hormon | Medicine |
ACTH | Dutch | Adrenocorticotroop hormoon | Medicine |
ACTH | English | Adrenocorticotropic hormone | Medicine |
ACTH | Finnish | Kortikotropiini | Medicine |
ACTH | French | Adréno-corticotrophine hypophysaire | Medicine |
ACTH | German | Adrenocorticotropes Hormon | Medicine |
ACTH | Italian | Ormone adrenocorticotropo | Medicine |
ACTH | Spanish | Hormona ACTH | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ACTHSynonyms: adrenocorticotrophic hormone (n), adrenocorticotrophin (n), adrenocorticotropic hormone (n), adrenocorticotropin (n), corticotrophin (n), corticotropin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: ACTH |
| English words defined with "ACTH": Cushing's disease ♦ hyperadrenalism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ACTH": ACTH Syndrome, Ectopic, alpha-MSH ♦ Cyclic AMP ♦ Pro-Opiomelanocortin ♦ Receptors, Corticotropin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ACTH" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (ACTH), Dutch (ACTH), Portuguese (ACTH). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | After curative pituitary surgery, the production of ACTH drops two levels below normal. (references) | |
ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone)a substance that can be used to treat infantile spasms. (references) | ||
The normal response after an injection of ACTH is a rise in blood and urine cortisol levels. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ACTH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ACTH" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acth | 61 |
acth stimulation test | 10 |
acth test | 7 |
acth deficiency | 3 |
acth hives injection | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ACTH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 促肾上腺皮质激 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ACTH (adreno-cortico-tropic-hormone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ACTH (adreno-cortico-tropic-hormone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | adrenokortikotropiini (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin), adrenokortikotrooppinen hormoni (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin, corticotropin hormon), ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin), kortikotropiini (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adreno-corticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophine, corticotropin, corticotropin hormon, corticotropine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hormone adrénocorticotrope. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | adrenocorticotropes Hormon (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adreno-cortico-tropic-hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin), ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adreno-cortico-tropic-hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φλοιοεπινεφριδιοτρόπος ορμόνη (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin), αδρενοκορτικοτρόπος ορμόνη (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ormone adrenocorticotropo (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acthay ACTH. (various references) адренокортикотропин. (various references) ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin), hormona adrenocorticotropina (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin), hormona adrenocorticotropa (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adreno-cortico-tropic-hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin), hormona adrenocorticotrófica (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin), hormona ACTH (adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chat, tach. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-t" | |
-1 letter: act, cat, hat. | |
-2 letters: ah, at, ha, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-t" | |
+1 letter: aitch, batch, catch, chant, chapt, chart, chats, cheat, hatch, latch, match, natch, patch, ratch, tache, tachs, teach, thack, theca, watch, yacht. | |
+2 letters: attach, cachet, cahoot, canthi, catchy, caught, chaeta, chalet, chalot, chants, chanty, charts, chaste, chatty, chaunt, cheats, chetah, chital, cratch, cushat, datcha, detach, haptic, hepcat, klatch, nautch, patchy, phatic, rachet, sachet, scathe, slatch, snatch, stanch, starch, swatch, taches, thacks, thatch, thecae, thecal, thwack, waucht, yachts. | |
+3 letters: acanthi, achiest, achiote, aitches, aphetic, aphotic, attache, batched, batcher, batches, brachet, cachets, cahoots, calathi, canthal, canthus, catarrh, catcher, catches, catchup, catechu, catfish, cathead, cathect, cathode, cattish, chaetae, chaetal, chalets, challot, chaloth, chalutz, chanted, chanter, chantey, chantor, chantry, chaotic, chapati, chaplet, chapter, chariot, charity, charted, charter, chasten, chaster, chateau, chatted, chattel, chatter, chaunts, chayote, cheated, cheater, cheetah, chelate, chetahs, chitals, cholate, chutzpa, cithara, claucht, claught, cohabit, cushats, datchas, ecthyma, enchant, escheat, etchant, ethical, futharc, gnathic, hackbut, haircut, haricot, hatched, hatchel, hatcher, hatches, hatchet, hatrack, hectare, hellcat, hematic, hepatic, hepcats, hotcake, isotach, jacinth, klatsch, latched, latches, latchet, machete, manchet, matched, matcher, matches, matchup, ootheca, patched, patcher, patches, potlach, rachets, ratches, ratchet, rechart, recheat, rematch, repatch, reteach, sachets, satchel, scathed, scathes, scratch, snatchy, spathic, starchy, staunch, stomach, tachism, tachist, tachyon, teacher, teaches, thacked, thallic, thatchy, thecate, theriac, thwacks, trachea, trachle, tranche, trochal, trochar, unlatch, unteach, watched, watcher, watches, wauchts, xanthic, yachted, yachter. | |
+4 letters: acanthus, achiotes, achromat, acrolith, actorish, aetheric, alcahest, anchoret, anorthic, apothece, archaist, arythmic, asthenic, atechnic, athletic, atrophic, attached, attacher, attaches, autarchy, bacchant, backchat, batchers, batching, bathetic, brachets, cachalot, cachepot, cacheted, calathos, calathus, calthrop, camshaft, carritch, cartouch, catarrhs, catchall, catchers, catchfly, catchier, catching, catchups, catechin, catechol, catechus, catfight, catheads, cathects, cathedra, catheter, cathexes, cathexis, cathodal, cathodes, cathodic, catholic, cathouse, cenotaph, challoth, chantage, chanters, chanteys, chanties, chanting, chantors, chapatis, chapatti, chapiter, chaplets, chappati, chapters, chaqueta, chariest, chariots, charters, charting, chartist, chastely, chastens, chastest, chastise, chastity, chatchka, chatchke, chateaus, chateaux, chattels, chatters, chattery, chattier, chattily, chatting, chaunted, chaunter, chayotes, cheapest, cheaters, cheating, cheetahs, chelated, chelates, chelator, chevalet, chiastic, chigetai, chiliast, chitchat, chitosan, chlorate, cholates, chordate, chromate, chutzpah, chutzpas, citharas, claughts, coauthor, cohabits, cohobate, couchant, cratches, deathcup, despatch, detached, detacher, detaches, dispatch, dogwatch, dutchman, echinate, empathic, emphatic, enchants, eschalot, escheats, etchants, ethicals, ethician, ethnarch, ethnical, futharcs, gauchest, hackbuts, haematic, haircuts, halachot, handcart, haptenic, haptical, hardtack, haricots, hatcheck, hatchels, hatchers, hatchery, hatchets, hatching, hatchway, hatracks, haystack, hecatomb, hectares, hectical, hellcats, hematics, hepatica, hepatics, heptarch, hetaeric, hieratic, hoactzin, hotcakes, hyacinth, inchoate, isotachs, jacinthe, jacinths, katchina, kathodic, klatches, latchets, latching, latchkey, leachate, machetes, manchets, mastiche, matchbox, matchers, matching, matchups, merchant, midwatch, mismatch, mispatch, misteach, moschate, mustache, mythical, nautches, nightcap, nuthatch, octarchy, oothecae, oothecal, outcatch, outcharm, outcheat, outcoach, outmarch, outmatch, outreach, outwatch, parritch, pastiche, patchers, patchier, patchily, patching, pathetic, penchant, pentarch, petechia, phratric, phreatic, phthalic, pistache, pitchman, planchet, potlache, potlatch, pushcart, rachitic, rachitis, ratchets, reattach, recharts, recheats, rhematic, sacheted, satchels, scathing, schemata, schmaltz, scratchy, scyphate, seecatch, slatches, snatched, snatcher, snatches, soutache, stanched, stancher, stanches, stanchly, starched, starches, stomachs, stomachy, swatches, tachinid, tachisme, tachisms, tachiste, tachists, tachyons, taiglach, teachers, teaching, teiglach, tetrarch, thacking, thalamic, thatched, thatcher, thatches, thearchy, theatric, thematic, theocrat, theriaca, theriacs, thetical, thinclad, thoracal, thoraces, thoracic, thwacked, thwacker, tovarich, tracheae, tracheal, tracheas, tracheid, trachled, trachles, trachoma, trachyte, tranches, trauchle, triarchy, tribrach, trichina, trochaic, trochars, trochlea, tuckahoe, uncatchy, uncaught, unchaste, watchcry, watchdog, watchers, watcheye, watchful, watching, watchman, watchmen, watchout, wauchted, whinchat, whitecap, whitrack, woodchat, yachters, yachting, yachtman, yachtmen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 54 48 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. - .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0054 0048 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35375442 |
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