FSH

Definition: FSH

FSH

Noun

1. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.

Specialty Definition: FSH

Domain	Definition
Health	A gonadotropic hormone found in the pituitary tissues of mammals. It regulates the metabolic activity of ovarian granulosa cells and testicular Sertoli cells, induces maturation of Graafian follicles in the ovary, and promotes the development of the germinal cells in the testis. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: FSH

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
FSH	Danish	Follikelstimulerende hormon	Medicine
FSH	Dutch	Follikelstimulerend hormoon	Medicine
FSH	English	Follicle-stimulating hormone	Medicine
FSH	German	Follikelreifungshormon	Medicine
FSH	Italian	Ormone follicolostimolante	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: FSH

Synonym: follicle-stimulating hormone (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: FSH

Specialty definitions using "FSH": Glycoprotein Hormones, alpha Subunit ♦ Inhibin ♦ Menotropins ♦ Receptors, LHRH. (references)

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Commercial Usage: FSH

Domain	Title
Books	Fsh Alone in Ovulation Induction (reference) Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Fisher Scientific Interna - FSH [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Recombinant FSH (Puregon): Preclinical and Clinical Experience (reference) (more book examples)

Music	FSH Vol I (reference) FSH Vol II [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: FSH

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		FSH levels tend to fluctuate during perimenopause, so these test results alone are not used to diagnose menopause. (references)
		Your ovaries become resistant to FSH, and the pituitary releases more and more of it trying to keep up estrogen production. (references)
		Your doctor may do a blood test for FSH. When you have been period-free for 1 year and have an elevated FSH level (usually over 30-40 IU, international units), you have reached menopause. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FSH

"FSH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "FSH" is used about 5 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 (proper)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (common)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FSH

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
fsh	145	fertility fsh	4
fsh level	56	fsh injection	4
fsh high	39	fsh level low	4
americanexpress.com fsh	20	forum fsh high	4
despite fsh high pregnant	18	chinese fsh medicine traditional	3
fsh test	18	40 fsh high over woman	3
fsh hormone	15	follicle fsh hormone stimulating	3
fsh high level	14	fsh pure	3
hormone fsh level	14	fsh testing	3
fsh level normal	13	chemnitz fsh gmbh	3
fsh lh	12	3 day fsh	2
fsh high new	12	fsh level lh	2
fsh menopause	10	fsh low	2
blood test fsh	10	elisa fsh	2
fsh level menopause	9	fsh muscular dystrophy	2
40 fsh high over	8	fsh hormona	2
elevated fsh	7	fsh receptor	2
fsh high new support	6	american express fsh	2
fsh and infertility	6	cause fsh high	2
fsh lh ratio	6	editor fsh	2
fsh society	4	fsh ivf	2
40 fsh	4	fsh lh test	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FSH

Language		Translations for "FSH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		follikelstimulierendes Hormon-releasing hormone (FSH releasing hormone, gonadotrop(h)in releasing factor, gonadotrop(h)in releasing hormone), follikelstimulierendes Hormon-releasing factor (FSH releasing hormone, gonadotrop(h)in releasing factor, gonadotrop(h)in releasing hormone), Follikel-Releasinghormon (FSH releasing hormone, gonadotrop(h)in releasing factor, gonadotrop(h)in releasing hormone). (various references)

Pig Latin		fshay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FSH

Derivations
	Words containing "FSH": bailiffship, bailiffships, chiefship, chiefships, offshoot, offshoots, offshore. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FSH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-h-s"
	-1 letter: sh.
	Words containing the letters "f-h-s"
	+1 letter: fash, fehs, fish.
	+2 letters: chefs, fishy, flash, flesh, flush, fohns, fresh, frosh, haafs, hafis, hafts, hefts, hoofs, howfs, huffs, khafs, shaft, sheaf, shelf, shift.
	+3 letters: afresh, chafes, chaffs, chiefs, chufas, chuffs, elfish, faiths, famish, fashed, fashes, fetish, fiches, fichus, fifths, fights, filths, finish, firths, fished, fisher, fishes, flashy, fleshy, flysch, foehns, friths, froths, howffs, oafish, offish, shaduf, shafts, sharif, sheafs, sherif, shifts, shifty, shofar, shrift, shroff, thefts, wharfs, whiffs, whoofs.
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