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Definition: Steroid |
SteroidNoun1. Any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings; many have important physiological effects. 2. Any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A group name for lipids that contain a hydrogenated cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene ring system. Some of the substances included in this group are progesterone, adrenocortical hormones, the gonadal hormones, cardiac aglycones, bile acids, sterols (such as cholesterol), toad poisons, saponins, and some of the carcinogenic hydrocarbons. (references) |
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Synonyms: SteroidSynonyms: sex hormone (n), steroid hormone (n). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Steroid Sub-Committee and Consultants Meeting, 16-17 Nov. 1950 (AFIP). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | It must be taken more often than a nasal steroid. (references) | |
Few data exist on the extent of steroid abuse by adults. (references) | ||
However, steroid abuse is growing most rapidly among young women. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Steroid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 82.30% of the time. "Steroid" is used about 113 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 82.3% | 93 | 34,067 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.93% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 113 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "steroid": adrenal cortical steroid ♦ anabolic androgenic steroid ♦ anabolic steroid ♦ Steroid 11 beta-Monooxygenase ♦ Steroid 12-Monooxygenase ♦ Steroid 17 alpha-Monooxygenase ♦ Steroid 21-Monooxygenase ♦ steroid alcohol ♦ steroid hormone ♦ Steroid Isomerases ♦ steroid therapy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "steroid": steroid-free, steroid-hormone, steroid-induced, steroid-injected, steroid-treated. | |
Ending with "steroid": non-steroid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
steroid | 4,811 | deca steroid | 55 |
anabolic steroid | 1,209 | steroid info | 53 |
steroid cycle | 243 | steroid online | 45 |
legal steroid | 237 | type of steroid | 43 |
buy steroid | 210 | steroid abuse | 43 |
steroid information | 173 | body building steroid | 42 |
steroid side effects | 169 | steroid forum | 40 |
mexican steroid | 165 | buy anabolic steroid | 40 |
steroid for sale | 150 | buy steroid online | 38 |
resource steroid | 125 | woman steroid | 36 |
steroid picture | 120 | buying steroid | 35 |
steroid alternative | 112 | steroid stacks | 34 |
epidural steroid injection | 98 | steroid world | 32 |
steroid effects | 84 | epidural steroid | 30 |
steroid profile | 81 | steroid winstrol | 28 |
steroid injection | 80 | oral steroid | 28 |
steroid use | 76 | pro steroid | 28 |
mexican anabolic steroid | 75 | steroid supplier | 27 |
mail order steroid | 68 | athlete and steroid | 27 |
steroid encyclopedia | 56 | injecting steroid | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "steroid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стероид. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 類固醇 , 类固醇. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | steroid (steroids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steroide (steroids), steroïd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | virtsan steroidigrammi (urinary steroid profile), virtsan steroidien määrät (urinary steroid profile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stéroïde (steroids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | steroid (steroids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στεροειδογράφημα ούρων (urinary steroid profile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szteroid (spheroid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | steroide (steroids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ステレオ"送 (stained glass, stainless, stainless steel, stereo broadcasting, stereotype). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ステロイド . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 스테로이". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eroidstay esteróide (steroids). (various references) стероид, bioch. стероид. (various references) esteroide (steroids). (various references) steroider (steroids), steroid. (various references) steroid. (various references) стероїд. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "steroid": steroidal, steroidogeneses, steroidogenesis, steroidogenic, steroids. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "steroid": adrenocorticosteroid, asteroid, corticosteroid, hysteroid, ketosteroid, nonsteroid. (additional references) | |
Words containing "steroid": adrenocorticosteroids, asteroidal, asteroids, corticosteroids, ketosteroids, nonsteroidal, nonsteroids. (additional references) | |
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"Steroid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: athetoid, ctenoid, osteoid, Pterois, saturniid, serod, stearoid, stergid, sterio, steriod, stero, sterro, teroid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: editors, sortied, storied, triodes. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: direst, dories, doters, dotier, driest, droits, editor, rioted, sorted, sortie, stored, stride, strode, todies, tories, triode, triose. | |
-2 letters: deist, diets, dirts, dites, doers, doest, doits, doser, doter, dotes, drest, dries, droit, edits, eidos, odist, osier, redos, resid, resod, rides, riots, rites, rosed, roset, rotes, rotis, sired, sited, stied, store, tides, tiers, tired. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: asteroid, cordites, deorbits, digestor, diopters, dioptres, diorites, dorkiest, grodiest, mortised, outrides, outsider, peridots, proteids, riposted, rowdiest, steroids, stodgier, stolider, topsider, wordiest. | |
+2 letters: adroitest, amortised, asteroids, broodiest, centroids, codirects, coeditors, courtside, creditors, depictors, depositor, desertion, deviators, diestrous, digestors, dipterous, directors, disorient, disported, disrooted, dissector, distorted, distorter, doctrines, dolerites, dosimeter, dosimetry, dripstone, droopiest, drossiest, drowsiest, estradiol, hysteroid, idolaters, indentors, lordliest, mediators, misrouted, missorted, modernist, motorised, ordinates, outdrives, outraised, outriders, outsiders, outstride, overedits, piedforts, proteides, recordist, redeposit, reposited, retinoids, roistered, steroidal, storewide, subeditor, tetroxids, theorised, topsiders, torridest, trioxides, tripodies. | |
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