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Definition: Gonadotropin |
GonadotropinNoun1. Hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The water-soluble follicle stimulating substance, by some believed to originate in chorionic tissue, obtained from the serum of pregnant mares. It is used to supplement the action of estrogens. (references) |
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Synonyms: GonadotropinSynonyms: gonadotrophic hormone (n), gonadotrophin (n), gonadotropic hormone (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gonadotropin |
| English words defined with "gonadotropin": gonadotrophic, gonadotropic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gonadotropin": Androstane-3,17-diol ♦ Choriocarcinoma ♦ Estrogens, Catechol. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gonadotropin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Danish (gonadotropic). |
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Health | If the tumor limits the secretion of gonadotropin, it can affect the development and functioning of the ovaries and testes. (references) | |
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| "Gonadotropin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gonadotropin" 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) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gonadotropin": human chorionic gonadotropin ♦ serum gonadotropin. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
human chorionic gonadotropin | 70 |
gonadotropin | 39 |
chorionic gonadotropin | 24 |
gonadotropin releasing hormone | 4 |
gonadotropin therapy | 4 |
is human chorionic gonadotropin hcg | 3 |
human chorionic gonadotropin level | 2 |
gonadotropin human menopausal | 2 |
beta chorionic gonadotropin human | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "gonadotropin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | gonadotropin releasing hormone-test (human chorionic gonadotropin test), serumgonadotropin (serum gonadotropin), humant beta-choriongonadotropin (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin), beta-HCG (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin). (various references) | |
Dutch | serumgonadotrofine (serum gonadotropin), HCG-test (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), HCG (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin), bêta-HCG (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin). (various references) | |
Finnish | koriongonadotropiinin beeta-alayksikkö (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin), istukkagonadotropiinikoe (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), istukagonadotropiinin beeta-alayksikkö (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin). (various references) | |
French | gonadotrophine sérique (serum gonadotropin), test à l'hormone chorionique gonadotrophique (human chorionic gonadotropin test), test à l'HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin test), hormone chorionique gravidique (human chorionic gonadotropin), HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin), facteur inhibant la libération des gonadotropines (gonadotropin release inhibiting factor), béta-HCG (beta-human chorionic gonadotropin). (various references) | |
German | Serumgonadotrofin (serum gonadotropin), HCG-Test (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), Beta-HCG (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin). (various references) | |
Greek | βήτα-HCG (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin), δοκιμασία χοριακής γοναδοτροπίνης (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), δοκιμασία HCG (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test). (various references) | |
Italian | gonadotropina serica (serum gonadotropin), gonadotropina corionica umana (human chorionic gonadotropin), test dell'HCG (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), test della gonadotropina corionica (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onadotropingay.(various references) | |
Spanish | prueba de la HCG (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), prueba de la gonadotrofina coriónica (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), fracción b de la hormona gonadotropina coriónica (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin), b-HGC (beta-HCG, beta-human chorionic gonadotropin). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gonadotropin": gonadotropins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-n-n-o-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-3 letters: pardoning, pronating, pronation, ratooning. | |
-4 letters: adopting, adoption, adorning, antiporn, aproning, donating, donation, drooping, ignorant, parotoid, poignant, rigadoon, rogation, tandoori, trooping, troponin. | |
-5 letters: adoring, andiron, atoning, atropin, darning, darting, diatron, dipnoan, doating, donator, dragoon, draping, droning, gadroon, godroon, nonpaid, nonpoor, odorant, oogonia, orating, oration, organon, padroni, pandoor, panting, parodoi, parotid, parting, patroon, pignora, pintado. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-n-n-o-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: gonadotrophin, gonadotropins. | |
+2 letters: gonadotrophins. | |
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