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"ANDROGENS" is a plural of: androgen. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A class of sex hormones associated with the development and maintenance of the secondary male sex characteristics, sperm induction, and sexual differentiation. In addition to increasing virility and libido, they also increase nitrogen and water retention and stimulate skeletal growth. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ANDROGENSSynonym: Sex hormones. (additional references) |
Crosswords: ANDROGENS |
| English words defined with "ANDROGENS": ball, ballock, bollock ♦ egg ♦ nut ♦ orchis ♦ testicle, testis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ANDROGENS": Androgen Antagonists, Androgen-Binding Protein, Androgens, Synthetic, Androstanes, Aromatase ♦ Freemartinism ♦ Hyperandrogenism ♦ Megace, megestrol ♦ Receptors, Androgen ♦ Testicular Feminization, total androgen blockade. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Oral androgens, as currently available, are not indicated. (references) | |
Androgens, like all steroid hormones, are derived from cholesterol. (references) | ||
Cancer cells secrete excess levels of several adrenal cortical hormones, including cortisol and adrenal androgens. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ANDROGENS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ANDROGENS" is used about 8 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 (plural) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
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 |
androgens | 76 |
anti androgens | 16 |
androgens and estrogens | 4 |
androgens anti herbal | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ANDROGENS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | androgener. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | androgenen, androgene stoffen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aivojen altistuminen androgeeneille (brain exposure to androgens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | androgènes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Androgene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανδρογόνα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | androgeno (androgenic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | androgensay andrógenos. (various references) andrógenos. (various references) hjärna exponerad för androgena hormoner (brain exposure to androgens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ANDROGENS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Andrejevs, androgene, androgenus, androgeny, androgynes, Randtroge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-n-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: androgen, grandson. | |
-2 letters: dangers, dogears, dragons, ganders, gardens, groaned, nonages, onagers, oranges. | |
-3 letters: adores, adorns, agones, angers, anodes, argons, arseno, dagoes, danger, denars, dogear, dongas, donnas, dosage, dragon, drones, gander, garden, genoas, genros, gonads, goners, grades, grands, groans, nonage, onager, orange, orangs, oreads, organs, radons, ranged, ranges, reason, redans, redons, sander, sanger, sarode. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-n-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: androgynes. | |
+2 letters: androgynies. | |
+3 letters: androgeneses, androgenesis, denigrations, nongraduates, ropedancings. | |
+4 letters: dangerousness, degenerations, demonstrating, grandioseness, nondecreasing, nonsegregated, scandalmonger, undercoatings. | |
+5 letters: bildungsromane, countershading, deconsecrating, degranulations, disintegration, disorientating, hydrogenations, nondegenerates, nondegradables, pseudopregnant, scandalmongers, superabounding. | |
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