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Definition: Cortisol |
CortisolNoun1. An adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | A steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex as part of the body's response to stress. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: CortisolSynonym: hydrocortisone (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cortisol |
| English words defined with "cortisol": Cushing's syndrome ♦ Deltasone ♦ hyperadrenocorticism ♦ Liquid pred ♦ Meticorten ♦ Orasone ♦ prednisone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cortisol": Receptors, Glucocorticoid ♦ Zona Fasciculata. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The hormone cortisol was measured in both family history-positive (FHP)and family history-negative (FHN) subjects before consuming alcohol. Credit: NIAA. |
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Health | Elevations of cortisol during this test suggest Cushing's syndrome. (references) | |
Mitotane suppresses cortisol production and lowers plasma and urine hormone levels. (references) | ||
Cortisol is normally produced by the adrenal glands, located just above the kidneys. (references) | ||
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| "Cortisol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Cortisol" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "cortisol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 氢化皮质酮. (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | plasma-cortisol, P-cortisol, kortisol. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | cortisol, plasmacortisolspiegel, hydrocortison (hydrocortisone). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | plasman kortisoli. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | cortisol plasmatique, cortisol. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Cortisol, Kortisol. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | κορτιζόλη πλάσματος, κορτιζόλη. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | cortisolo plasmatico, cortisol. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortisolcay cortisol plasmático. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cortisol": cortisols. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: colorist. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-l-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lictors, octrois. | |
-2 letters: cloots, colors, lictor, octroi, triols. | |
-3 letters: clits, cloot, clots, coils, coirs, color, colts, cools, coots, lirot, locos, loots, loris, lotic, lotos, olios, riots, roils, roost, roots, rotis, rotls, rotos, scoot, sotol, stoic, stool, tirls, tiros, toils, tools, torcs, toric, toros, torsi, torso, triol, trios, trois. | |
-4 letters: cist, clit, clot, coil, coir. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-l-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: colorists, cortisols, solicitor, tricolors. | |
+2 letters: colicroots, coloristic, coprolites, locutories, microvolts, oscillator, solicitors. | |
+3 letters: atrociously, biocontrols, blastoporic, bootlickers, collimators, colorations, colorpoints, inoculators, interschool, multicolors, necrologist, oscillators, oscillatory, protostelic, relocations, terricolous, torticollis. | |
+4 letters: archeologist, astrological, astronomical, borosilicate, cardiologist, cartoonishly, chlorinators, chocolatiers, chronologist, citronellols, coleopterist, cologarithms, colorimeters, conciliators, consistorial, consolidator, correlations, coulometries, counterfoils, crocidolites, cryptologies, cryptologist, folkloristic, holophrastic, iconolatries, intercoolers, interschools, motorcyclist, necrologists, otosclerosis, percolations, polyhistoric, proctologies, proctologist, protoplasmic, trichlorfons, trichologies, trichologist, victoriously. | |
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