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Definition: Oxytocin |
OxytocinNoun1. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A nonapeptide posterior pituitary hormone that causes uterine contractions and stimulates lactation. (references) |
Medicine | Hormone which induces labour and lactation in women. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: OxytocinSynonym: Pitocin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Oxytocin |
| English words defined with "oxytocin": induction of labor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "oxytocin": Hypothalamic Hormones ♦ Milk Ejection ♦ Neurophysins ♦ Receptors, Oxytocin ♦ Tocolytic Agents. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Oxytocin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Danish (oxytocic). |
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Health | Fetal monitoring is the basis for the non-stress test and the oxytocin challenge test described below. (references) | |
It involves giving the hormone oxytocin (secreted by every mother when normal labor begins) to the mother to stimulate uterine contractions. (references) | ||
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| "Oxytocin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oxytocin" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
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Beginning with "oxytocin": oxytocin-ergometrine. | |
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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 |
oxytocin | 141 |
labor oxytocin | 6 |
bonding oxytocin woman | 3 |
kit oxytocin | 2 |
nasal oxytocin spray | 2 |
emotion oxytocin | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "oxytocin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 催产 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | oxytocin (oxytocic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oxytocine, pituitrine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | oksitosiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oxytocine, ocytocine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Oxytozin, Oxytocin, Orasthin, Ocytocin, Pituisan, Pitocin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | oxitocina, ossitocina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oxytocinay oxitocine, oxitocina. (various references) oxitocina. (various references) oxytocin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "oxytocin": oxytocins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "oxytocin" (pronounced Ä'ksutō"sun) |
| 3 | -s u n | aflatoxin, angiotensin, antitoxin, arson, assassin, basin, bison, bolson, businessperson, capsaicin, chairperson, chasten, christen, claxon, comparison, congressperson, damson, delicatessen, diocesan, dioxin, Dobson, ensign, fasten, garrison, Gibson, glisten, hasten, Hyson, jettison, keelson, kelson, layperson, lessen, lesson, listen, loosen, Mason, medicine, moisten, myosin, Nelson, newsperson, oxen, parson, person, rechristen, rhodopsin, salesperson, spokesperson, toxin, unison, venison, washbasin, weatherperson, worsen. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-o-o-t-x-y" | |
-2 letters: tycoon. | |
-3 letters: conto, cyton, ontic, tonic, toxic, toxin, toyon, yonic. | |
-4 letters: cion, city, coin, coni, cony, coon, coot, icon, into, nixy, onto, onyx, otic, tiny, tony, toon, toyo, tyin, yoni. | |
-5 letters: con, coo, cot, cox, coy, icy, ion, nit, nix, noo, not, oot, oxo, oxy, tic, tin, ton, too, toy, yin, yon. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-o-o-t-x-y" | |
+1 letter: cytotoxin, mycotoxin, oxytocins. | |
+2 letters: cytotoxins, mycotoxins. | |
+5 letters: carboxylation, cytotaxonomic, neurotoxicity, taxonomically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 78 79 74 6F 63 69 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- -..- -.--. - --- -.-. .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01111000 01111001 01110100 01101111 01100011 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O x y t o c i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0078 0079 0074 006F 0063 0069 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4990918681697580 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, cinese, chinês, chino, kinesisk |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, svedese, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk |
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