Releasing Factor

Definitions: Releasing Factor

Releasing Factor

Noun

1. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.

2. Any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each releasing hormone causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone.

Expressions: Releasing Factor

Expression using "releasing factor": hypothalamic releasing factor. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "releasing factor": growth hormone-releasing factor, thyrotropin-releasing factor.
	Containing "releasing factor": Guanine Nucleotide-Releasing Factor 2.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Releasing Factor

Language		Translations for "releasing factor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		releasing hormon (releasing hormone), releasing factor (releasing hormone), udløsende hormon (releasing hormone), udløsende faktor (releasing hormone). (various references)

Dutch		RH (releasing hormone, rH), releasing hormone (releasing hormone). (various references)

Finnish		vapauttajahormoni (releasing hormone). (various references)

French		RH (hypersensitive reaction, releasing hormone), releasing hormone (releasing hormone), hormone de libération (releasing hormone). (various references)

German		Releasing Hormone (releasing hormone), neurosekretorisches Hormon des Hypothalamus (releasing hormone). (various references)

Greek		απελευθερωτικός παράγοντας (releasing hormone), απελευθερωτική ορμόνη (releasing hormone). (various references)

Italian		RH (releasing hormone, rH), ormone di rilascio (releasing hormone). (various references)

Pig Latin		eleasingray actorfay

Portuguese		RH (releasing hormone, rH), RF (radio frequency, releasing hormone, rheumatoid factor), hormona de libertação (releasing hormone), factor de libertação (releasing hormone). (various references)

Spanish		factor de liberación (releasing hormone). (various references)

Swedish		releasing hormone (releasing hormone), release-hormon (releasing hormone), frisläppningshormon (releasing hormone). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Releasing Factor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-g-i-l-n-o-r-r-s-t"
	-3 letters: rarefactions, recreational, reescalating, reescalation.
	-4 letters: aeroelastic, correlating, flagrancies, forecasting, fragrancies, lacerations, rarefaction, recreations, reflections, reforesting, refractions, relegations, secretarial.
	-5 letters: aftercares, alienators, analgetics, aragonites, arecolines, arrogances, arterioles, cafeterias, carrageens, cartilages, catalogers, categories, categorise, catenaries, centralise, centrioles, clientages, conferrals, contraries, corelating, correlates, costarring, cotransfer, electroing, escalating, escalation, estrogenic, factorages, factorials, falconries, fascinator, ferretings, flagrances, florescent.
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