Endocrine

Definition: Endocrine

Endocrine

Adjective

1. Of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions; "endocrine system".

Synonym: Endocrine

Synonym: endocrinal (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: exocrine (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Endocrine

English words defined with "endocrine": adrenal, adrenal gland ♦ corpus luteum ♦ ductless gland ♦ endocrinal, endocrine gland, endocrine system, endocrinologist, endocrinology, epiphysis, epiphysis cerebri ♦ hormone, hypophysis ♦ internal secretion, islands of Langerhans, isles of Langerhans, islets of Langerhans ♦ neuroendocrine ♦ parathyroid, parathyroid gland, pineal body, pineal gland, pituitary, pituitary body, pituitary gland ♦ suprarenal gland. (references)

Specialty definitions using "endocrine": Androst-5-ene-3 beta,17 beta-diol, Autonomic Agents ♦ Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Bone Diseases, Endocrine ♦ Candidiasis, Chronic Mucocutaneous, Corpus Luteum Regression, Cytokines ♦ D Cells, Diagnostic Techniques, Endocrine ♦ endocrine cancer, Endocrine Cells of Gut, Endocrine disruptor, Endocrine Gland Neoplasms, Endocrine Glands, Endocrine Surgical Procedures, Enterochromaffin-like Cells ♦ G Cells, Gastrinoma ♦ hormonal therapy, Hormone Antagonists, hormone therapy, Hormones, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System ♦ Laurence-Moon Syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome ♦ Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome ♦ Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent, Neoplastic Endocrine-Like Syndromes, Neuroendocrinology, Neurosecretory Systems ♦ Parathyroid Glands, Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune ♦ Receptors, sigma, Rioprostil ♦ Tuberculosis, Endocrine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Endocrine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (endocrine).

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Commercial Usage: Endocrine

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Endocrine Physiology (reference) Endocrine Secrets (The Secrets Series) (reference) Endocrine Tumors (Book with CD-ROM) (reference) Environmental Endocrine Disruptors (reference) Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Journal Of Endocrine Genetics (reference) Endocrine Pathology (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Endocrine

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Endocrine disruptors are chemicals which interfere with endocrine system function. (references)
		Many have problems with endocrine glands such as the parathyroid, thyroid, and adrenal glands. (references)
		Addison's disease is a rare endocrine or hormonal disorder that affects about 1 in 100,000 people. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Endocrine

"Endocrine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.20% of the time. "Endocrine" is used about 51 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)	90.2%	46	50,285
Noun (proper)	5.88%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	3.92%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	51	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Endocrine

Expressions using "endocrine": endocrine cancer ♦ Endocrine Cells of Gut ♦ endocrine gland ♦ Endocrine Gland Neoplasms ♦ Endocrine Glands ♦ endocrine secretion ♦ Endocrine Surgical Procedures ♦ Endocrine System ♦ Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia ♦ Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 ♦ Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2a ♦ Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2b. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "endocrine": Endocrine-Like.
	Ending with "endocrine": non-endocrine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Endocrine

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
endocrine system	566
endocrine	181
endocrine society	112
endocrine gland	68
endocrine disorder	61
endocrine picture system	36
endocrine disruptors	30
endocrine disease	24
endocrine surgery	24
endocrine system diagram	16
endocrine system information	11
endocrine disrupting chemical	10
endocrine tumor	10
endocrine disruption	10
endocrine system function	10
endocrine hormone	9
diagram endocrine	9
endocrine review	7
endocrine hormone system	6
endocrine disruptor	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Endocrine

Language		Translations for "endocrine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏أصم (deaf, deafening, irrational, prime, surd). (various references)

Bulgarian		вътрешна секреция, жлеза с вътрешна секреция, ендокринен. (various references)

Chinese		内分泌. (various references)

Danish		endokrin (endocrine gland). (various references)

Dutch		endocrien (endocrine gland). (various references)

Farsi		غده مترشحه داخلی , غده درون تراو, غده بدون مجراوبداخل ترشح کننده , درون ریز. (various references)

Finnish		endokriininen, umpieritys-, sisäeritys-. (various references)

French		endocrine (endocrine gland). (various references)

German		endokrin. (various references)

Greek		ενδοκρινικός. (various references)

Hungarian		endokrin mirigy (endocrine gland), endokrin, belső elválasztású. (various references)

Italian		endocrino. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		内分泌腺 (endocrine gland). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ないぶ�"ぴつせ�" (endocrine gland), ないぶ�"ぴせ�" (endocrine gland). (various references)

Pig Latin		endocrineay

Portuguese		endocardite (endocarditis), endócrino. (various references)

Romanian		endocrin, hormon, cu secreţie internã. (various references)

Russian		эндокринный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		endokrin. (various references)

Spanish		endocrino. (various references)

Swedish		endokrin. (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับต่อมไร้ท่อ. (various references)

Turkish		endokrin, iç salgı ile ilgili. (various references)

Ukranian		внутрісекреторний, ендокринний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Endocrine

Derivations
	Words beginning with "endocrine": endocrines. (additional references)
	Words ending with "endocrine": neuroendocrine. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Endocrine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endecaine, endochrine, endocrien, endocrin, endoctine, endorcine, endrocine, endrocrine. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Endocrine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-n-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: recoined.
	-2 letters: codeine, encoder, encored.
	-3 letters: cinder, codein, coined, coiner, conine, conned, conner, corned, decern, deicer, denier, dinero, dinner, donnee, edenic, encode, encore, endrin, indene, ironed, neoned, nereid, nordic, orcein, oreide, recode, recoin, redone, reined.
	-4 letters: ceder, cered, cider, coden, coder, coned, conin, cored, credo, creed, cried, crone, decor, deice, dicer, diene, diner, donee, donne, drone, eider, ender, erode, inned, inner, irone, nicer, niece, nonce, orcin, recon, redon, renin, riced.
	-5 letters: cede, cedi, cere, cero, cine, cion, cire, code, coed, coin, coir, cone, coni, conn, cord, core, corn, deco, deer, dene, deni, dere, dice, dine, dire, doer, done, dore, dree, eide, erne, iced, icon, inro, ired, iron, need, nene, neon, nerd, nice, nide, nine, node, nodi, noir, none, nori, odic, once, rede, redo, reed, rein, rend, rice, ride, rind, rode.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-n-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: endergonic, endocrines.
	+2 letters: encrimsoned, nondirected, reconvinced.
	+3 letters: androgenetic, countermined, crescendoing, noncertified, nondirective, nonresidence, nonresidency, predominance, recommending, recondensing, reconnoitred, unconsidered, unrecognized, unreconciled, unreinforced.
	+4 letters: commandeering, comprehending, confederating, confederation, confirmedness, containerised, containerized, counterbidden, countersigned, inconsiderate, nonaccredited, nondecreasing, nonresidences, nonrestricted, noradrenergic, overconfident, overdominance, predominances, reconditeness, reconditioned, reconnoitered, reconsidering, secondariness.
	+5 letters: confederations, coordinateness, counterpointed, counterstained, deconsecrating, deconsecration, disconcertment, grandiloquence, inconsiderable, indecorousness, interconnected, interconverted, neuroendocrine, nondescriptive, nondestructive, nonresidencies, overconfidence, overdominances, overindulgence, preconditioned, predominancies, recommendation, recontaminated, superconfident.
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