Oestrogen

Definition: Oestrogen

Oestrogen

Noun

1. A general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics.

"Oestrogen" is a common misspelling or typo for: estrogen, estrogens.

Specialty Definitions: Oestrogen

Domain	Definitions
Health	A generic term for oestrus-producing steroid compounds; the female sex hormones. In humans, oestrogen is formed in the ovary, possibly the adrenal cortex, the testis, and the foetoplacental unit; it has various functions in both sexes. It is responsible for the development of the female secondary sex characteristics, and during the menstrual cycle it acts on the female genitalia to produce an environment suitable for the fertilization, implantation, and nutrition of the early embryo. Oestrogen is used in oral contraceptives and as a palliative in cancer of the breast after menopause and cancer of the prostate; other uses include the relief of the discomforts of menopause, inhibition of lactation, and treatment of osteoporosis, threatened abortion, and various functional ovarian disorders. (references)
Medicine	One of the two female sex hormones. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Oestrogen

Synonym: estrogen (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Oestrogen

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Woman	Estrogen, oestrogen.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Oestrogen

Domain	Title
Books	Oestrogen Deficiency: Causes and Consequences (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Oestrogen

"Oestrogen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oestrogen" is used about 101 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%	101	32,488

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

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Expressions: Oestrogen

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "oestrogen": oestrogen-containing, oestrogen-dependent, oestrogen-mimics, oestrogen-type.
	Ending with "oestrogen": anti-oestrogen, low-oestrogen.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oestrogen

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
oestrogen	34
oestrogen pill	2
oestrogen removal sewage	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Oestrogen

Language		Translations for "oestrogen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		østrogen (estrogen, oestrogenic, oestrogenous), østrogen. (various references)

Dutch		oestrogeen (estrogen, estrogenic hormone, oestrogenic, oestrogenous, ovarian hormones). (various references)

Finnish		naishormoni (estrogen), estrogeeni (estrogen). (various references)

French		oestrogène (oestrogenic, oestrogenous). (various references)

German		Follikelhormon (estrogen), Östrogen (estrogen), östrogenes Hormon (estrogen), Östrogen (female hormone). (various references)

Greek		οιστρογόνο (estrogen, oestrogenic, oestrogenous). (various references)

Italian		estrogeno (estrogen, oestrogenic, oestrogenous). (various references)

Manx		broddag woirryn. (various references)

Pig Latin		oestrogenay

Portuguese		estrogénio. (various references)

Spanish		estrógeno (estrogen, oestrogenic, oestrogenous). (various references)

Swedish		östrogen (estrogen). (various references)

Thai		ฮอร์โมนเพศหญิง สร้างมาจากรังไข่. (various references)

Ukranian		естроген. (various references)

Vietnamese		hocmon động dục nữ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Oestrogen

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-n-o-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: estrogen, oestrone.
	-2 letters: enroots, estrone, gentoos, gerents, orgones, regents, tongers, trogons.
	-3 letters: egrets, enroot, enters, ergots, genets, genres, genros, gentes, gentoo, gerent, goners, greens, greets, nester, nestor, nooser, noters, orgone, regent, renest, rentes, resent, sooner, stereo, stoner, stooge, strong, tenors, tenser, tensor, ternes, toners, tonger, torose, treens, trogon, trones.
	-4 letters: egers, egest, egret, enter.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-n-o-o-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: goniometers, progestogen.
	+3 letters: cogenerators, concertgoers, costermonger, goniometries, governorates, heterogenous, heterogonies, orthogeneses, orthogenesis, progesterone, progestogens, serotonergic.
	+4 letters: cogenerations, conglomerates, costermongers, frontogeneses, frontogenesis, gerontologies, heterogeneous, photoengraves, progesterones, progestogenic, retrogression, steroidogenic, terminologies.
	+5 letters: enterogastrone, foreshortening, gerontocracies, nongovernments, nonsegregation, outrageousness, overgenerosity, photoengravers, renegotiations, retrogressions, roentgenograms, serotoninergic, supererogation, thoroughnesses, trigonometries.
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