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Progestin

Definition: Progestin

Progestin

Noun

1. Any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone.

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


Synonym: Progestin

Synonym: progestogen (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Progestin

English words defined with "progestin": anovulatory drugbirth control pillcontraceptive pillhormone replacement therapy, hormone-replacement therapy, HRTmedroxyprogesterone, mestranol, Micronornorgestreloral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill, Ovulenpill, Provera. (references)
Specialty definitions using "progestin": GestrinoneMedroxyprogesterone 17-AcetatePromegestone. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Progestin

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Progestin, a synthetic progesterone, is usually prescribed. (references)

Or you could take estrogen and progestin together every day of the month without any break. (references)

Doctors usually prescribe HRT which combines estrogen and progestin (a form of progesterone). (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Progestin

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

progestin

98

estrogen pill progestin

66

estrogen progestin

13

progestin pill only

12

progestin side effects

6

estrogen progestin supplement

5

progesterone progestin

4

cream progestin

4

gain progestin weight

3

progestin only birth control pill

3

progestin only

3

comment progestin

3

progestin birth control pill

3

progestin pill

3

dose equivalent progestin

2

does gain make progestin weight

2

birth control only progestin

2

micronor only progestin

2

apoptosis induced progestin

2

birth control progestin

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Progestin

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

Chinese 

  

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French

  

progestine. (various references)

   

Italian

  

progestina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ogestinpray

   

Spanish

  

progestina. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Progestin

Derivations

Words beginning with "progestin": progestins. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Progestin"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "progestin" (pronounced prōje"sti'n)
3-t i' ncortin, erythropoietin, keratin, lattin, Patin, pectin, Quintin.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Progestin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: genitors, perigons, pointers, porniest, proteins, reposing, spongier, sporting, tropines.

-2 letters: epigons, eringos, genitor, goiters, goitres, goriest, ignores, norites, oestrin, orients, orpines, perigon, pigeons, pingers, pingoes, pintoes, pirogen, pointer, pointes, porgies, porting, postern, posting, presong, prosing, prostie, protein, pterins, regions, reposit, resting, riposte, ropiest, serpigo, signore, sorting, sponger, sporing, springe, stinger, stonier, stoping.

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

+1 letter: fingerpost, presorting, progestins, prosecting, protesting, repositing, respotting, stoppering.

 

+2 letters: fingerposts, hotpressing, interposing, outpressing, personating, progenitors, prosecuting, proselyting, prospecting, resprouting, temporising, topdressing, trypsinogen.

 

+3 letters: copresenting, expurgations, impregnators, misreporting, nephrologist, outspreading, overstepping, petrogenesis, phrenologist, predigestion, preignitions, redepositing, stenographic, stereotyping, topdressings, trypsinogens, unstoppering, upholstering.

 

+4 letters: computerising, counterposing, ethnographies, extemporising, glycoproteins, impersonating, impregnations, introspecting, mousetrapping, nephrologists, phrenologists, precognitions, predigestions, premoistening, pretensioning, primogenitors, progestogenic, prognosticate, proselytising, proselytizing, repositioning, retrospecting, saprogenicity, spermatogenic, spermatogonia, stenographies.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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