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Definition: Gonadotropic |
GonadotropicAdjective1. Of or relating to or involving gonadotropin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Stimulating the gonads; applied to hormones of the anterior pituitary which influence the gonads. (references) |
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Synonym: GonadotropicSynonym: gonadotrophic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gonadotropic |
| English words defined with "gonadotropic": follicle-stimulating hormone, FSH ♦ ICSH, interstitial cell-stimulating hormone ♦ lactogenic hormone, LH, luteinizing hormone, luteotropin ♦ prolactin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gonadotropic": Receptors, LH. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Furthermore, expression of ERs is modulated by the ability of estrogen to elicit responses in other target genes such as the progesterone receptor (PR), growth factors, and gonadotropic hormones. (references) | |
The production of testosterone is influenced by gonadotropic hormone dispatched from the pituitary gland (tropic hormones stimulate their target organs to secrete other hormones), and is regulated by interstitial-cell stimulating hormone (ICSH). (references) | ||
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Expression using "gonadotropic": gonadotropic hormone. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "gonadotropic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | gonadotropin. (various references) | |
Dutch | gonadotroop. (various references) | |
French | gonadotrope. (various references) | |
German | gonadotrop. (various references) | |
Italian | gonadotropo. (various references) | |
Korean | 생식자극성. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onadotropicgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gonadotrópico. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-i-n-o-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-3 letters: doctoring. | |
-4 letters: acrodont, adopting, adoption, coapting, coopting, cooption, copatron, coronoid, drooping, parotoid, picaroon, podagric, protonic, rigadoon, rogation, tandoori, tornadic, trooping. | |
-5 letters: adoring, apricot, aprotic, argotic, atropin, cantdog, cantrip, caption, carding, cardoon, carotid, carotin, carping, carting, cartoon, coating, cooping, coranto, cording, craping, crating, darting, diatron, doating, dogcart, donator, dragoon, draping, gadroon, godroon, gonadic, octagon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-g-i-n-o-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: gonadotrophic. | |
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