MSH

Definition: MSH

MSH

Noun

1. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.

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
MSH	Danish	Melanocytstimulerende hormon	Medicine
MSH	Dutch	Melanocytenstimulerend hormoon	Medicine
MSH	English	Music Society for the Handicapped	Fine Arts, Social Sciences
MSH	German	Melanozytenstimulierendes Hormon	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: MSH

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

Crosswords: MSH

Specialty definitions using "MSH": MSH Release-Inhibiting Hormone ♦ Pro-Opiomelanocortin. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The MSH peptides (reference) (more book examples)
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"MSH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MSH" is used about 6 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)	100%	6	143,867

Expression using "MSH": MSH Release-Inhibiting Hormone. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "MSH": MSH-Releasing Hormone.
	Ending with "MSH": alpha-MSH, beta-MSH, gamma-MSH.
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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.

Derivations
	Words containing "MSH": almshouse, almshouses, camshaft, camshafts, chumship, chumships, clamshell, clamshells, cumshaw, cumshaws, customshouse, customshouses, dramshop, dramshops, gumshoe, gumshoed, gumshoeing, gumshoes, mediumship, mediumships, ramshackle, ramshorn, ramshorns, samshu, samshus, scrimshander, scrimshanders, scrimshaw, scrimshawed, scrimshawing, scrimshaws, steamship, steamships. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-m-s"
	-1 letter: hm, sh.
	Words containing the letters "h-m-s"
	+1 letter: hams, hems, hums, mash, mesh, mhos, mosh, mush, ohms, sham, shim, shmo.
	+2 letters: amahs, chams, chasm, chums, haems, halms, hames, harms, helms, hemes, hemps, herms, holms, homes, homos, humps, humus, hymns, machs, marsh, mashy, maths, meshy, meths, moths, mushy, musth, myths, schmo, shame, shams, shawm, shims, smash, smith, whams, whims.
	+3 letters: abmhos, abohms, ahimsa, almahs, almehs, ambush, ashman, ashmen, ashram, asthma, bimahs, bumphs, champs, charms, chasms, chasmy, chemos, chiasm, chimbs, chimes, chimps, chirms, chomps, chrism, chumps, chymes, enmesh, famish, hakims, halmas, hamals, hamzas, hansom, harems, haulms, hemins, hokums, holism, homers, hommos, humans, hummus, humors, humphs, hymens, ihrams, immesh, impish, inmesh, isthmi, khoums, lymphs, maches, machos, mahoes, marish, marshy, mashed, masher, mashes, mashie, matsah, mensch, meshed, meshes, miches, mights, minish, mirths, mishap, mishit, mochas, modish, mohels, mohurs, monish, months, mopish, morphs, moshav, moshed, mosher, moshes, mouths, muches, mulish, mushed, musher, mushes, musths, mynahs, myrrhs, mythos, nymphs, oghams, oomphs, rehems, rheums, rhombs, rhumbs, rhymes, sachem, samech, samekh, samshu, schema, scheme, schism, schmoe, schmos, shalom, shaman, shamas, shamed, shames, shammy, shamos, shamoy, shamus, shawms, shazam, shimmy, shlump, shmear, shmoes, shmuck, sholom, shrimp, smirch, smiths, smithy, smooch, smooth, smutch, sumach, tharms, theism, themes, therms, thrums, thumbs, thumps, thymes, thymus, unmesh, whelms, whimsy, whomps, whomso, whumps.
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