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ACTH

Definition: ACTH

ACTH

Noun

1. 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.
 

"ACTH" is a common misspelling or typo for: ache, achy, act, acts, cat, catch, etch, itch.



Specialty Definitions: ACTH

DomainDefinitions

Health

Adrenocorticotropic hormone. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ACTH

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField

ACTH

DanishAdreno-corticotrope hormonMedicine

ACTH

DutchAdrenocorticotroop hormoonMedicine

ACTH

EnglishAdrenocorticotropic hormoneMedicine

ACTH

FinnishKortikotropiiniMedicine

ACTH

FrenchAdréno-corticotrophine hypophysaireMedicine

ACTH

GermanAdrenocorticotropes HormonMedicine

ACTH

ItalianOrmone adrenocorticotropoMedicine

ACTH

SpanishHormona ACTHMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: ACTH

Synonyms: adrenocorticotrophic hormone (n), adrenocorticotrophin (n), adrenocorticotropic hormone (n), adrenocorticotropin (n), corticotrophin (n), corticotropin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: ACTH

English words defined with "ACTH": Cushing's diseasehyperadrenalism. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ACTH": ACTH Syndrome, Ectopic, alpha-MSHCyclic AMPPro-OpiomelanocortinReceptors, 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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Commercial Usage: ACTH

DomainTitle

Books

  • Acth & Lph in Health & Disease (reference)

  • ACTH : eine Standortbestimmung fèur die Praxis : internationales Symposium, Dubrovnik, 23.-24. April 1973 (reference)

  • ACTH and related peptides : structure, regulation, and action : [papers] (reference)

  • Acth Cushings Syndrome and Other Hypercortisolemic States (Progress in Endocrine Research and Therapy Vol 5) (reference)

  • Central Actions of Acth and Related Peptides (Symposia in Neuroscience, Vol 4) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ACTH

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: ACTH

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Noun (proper)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACTH

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: ACTH

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

   

Portuguese

  

ACTH. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

адренокортикотропин. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ACTH

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ACTH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 43 54 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    -    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000011 01010100 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#84 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0054 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35375442

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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