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Estrone

Definition: Estrone

Estrone

Noun

1. A naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary; synthesized (trade name Estronol) and used to treat estrogen deficiency.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Estrone

DomainDefinitions

Health

3-Hydroxyestra-1,3,5(10)-trien-17-one. A metabolite of estradiol but possessing less biological activity. It is found in the urine of pregnant women and mares, in the human placenta, and in the urine of bulls and stallions. According to the Fourth Annual Report on Carcinogens (NTP 85-002, 1985), estrone may reasonably be anticipated to be a carcinogen (Merck, 11th ed). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Estrone

Synonyms: oestrone (n), theelin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Estrone

Specialty definitions using "estrone": Estradiol DehydrogenasesHydroxyestrones. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Estrone

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Health

Estrogens, including estradiol, estrone, and estriol, are extremely important in the development of secondary sex characteristics and regulation of the menstrual cycle. (references)

Although levels of estradiol, one form of estrogen, drop, a weaker estrogen, estrone, continues to be produced especially in fat tissue with help from the adrenal glands. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Estrone

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

estrone

26

estrone inhibitor sulfatase

3
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Modern Translations: Estrone

Language Translations for "estrone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

estron. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

estron. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

estroni. (various references)

   

French

  

estrone. (various references)

   

German

  

Estron. (various references)

   

Italian

  

estrone. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

エスキモー犬 (aesthetic, escape, escort, escort girl, Eskimo dog, ESPer, Esperanto, esprit, esprit nouveau, esquire, establishment, estate, ester, esterase, esthetic, esthetic salon, estheticien, Estonia, estrogen, es-zet, eternal, eternity, ethnic, ethnic fashion, ethnic food, ethnic group, ethnic look, ethnicism, ethnicity, ethno, ethnology, ethology, expresso, hope, one who has ESP, S size, sauce Espagnole, science of animal behaviour, Short Take-Off and Landing, small size, STOL). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

エストロン . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

estroneay

   

Portuguese

  

estrona. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estrona. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

estron. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Estrone

Derivations

Words beginning with "estrone": estrones. (additional references)

Words ending with "estrone": minestrone, oestrone. (additional references)

Words containing "estrone": minestrones, oestrones. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Estrone

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-n-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: enters, nester, nestor, noters, renest, rentes, resent, stereo, stoner, tenors, tenser, tensor, ternes, toners, treens, trones.

-2 letters: enter, ernes, erose, ester, nerts, noter, notes, onset, reest, rente, rents, reset, roset, rotes, senor, sente, seton, sneer, snore, snort, steer, steno, stere, stern, stone, store, teens, tenor, tense, terne, terns, terse, toner, tones, tores.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: earstone, enterons, entresol, estrogen, estrones, extensor, honester, oestrone, oneriest, resonate, serotine, softener, tenoners.

 

+2 letters: carotenes, concretes, consenter, contester, copresent, cretonnes, desertion, dethrones, deuterons, earstones, electrons, enthrones, entoderms, entrepots, entresols, entropies, erections, estrogens, exertions, exsertion, extensors, firestone, fomenters, fourteens, freestone, interpose, keynoters, modernest, moistener, monoester, neoterics, nondesert, oestrones, orneriest, otherness, outpreens, overspent, overtness, overtones, oystermen, personate, petronels, remoisten, renovates, reorients, resection, resolvent, resonated, resonates, roentgens, rondelets, rotenones, rottenest, rousement, secretion, serotines, shortened, shortener, softeners, sonneteer, stereoing, stoneware, tenebrous, tenorites, tensioner, threnodes, trecentos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Estrone


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 73 74 72 6F 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0073 0074 0072 006F 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39858684818071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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