hormone
See also: Hormone
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hormone (plural hormones)
- (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 165:
- Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.
- (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
- (LGBT, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.
- I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.
- (LGBT, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.
- (botany) Any similar substance in plants.
Hyponyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:hormone
Derived terms edit
- adipohormone
- adrenocorticotropic hormone
- allohormone
- antidiuretic hormone
- antihormone
- anti-Müllerian hormone
- caudodorsal cell hormone
- dorsal body hormone
- ectohormone
- enterohormone
- follicle-stimulating hormone
- follicle stimulating hormone
- gonadotropin-releasing hormone
- growth hormone
- hormonal
- hormonelike
- hormone-replacement therapy
- hormone replacement therapy
- hormones
- hormone therapy
- juvenile hormone
- light green cell hormone
- luteinising hormone
- luteinizing hormone
- melanocyte-stimulating hormone
- 'mones
- mones
- multihormone
- necrohormone
- neurohormone
- neurohypophysis hormone
- nonhormone
- parahormone
- parathormone
- parathyroid hormone
- phytohormone
- plant hormone
- prehormone
- preprohormone
- prohormone
- proteohormone
- prothoracicotropic hormone
- releasing hormone
- rooting hormone
- sex hormone
- thyroid hormone
- thyroid-stimulating hormone
- thyrotropic hormone
- thyrotropin-releasing hormone
- trophic hormone
- tropic hormone
- xenohormone
Translations edit
substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity
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synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone
a plant hormone
Verb edit
hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)
- (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones.
Translations edit
to treat with hormones
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hormone f (plural hormones)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “hormone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
hormone (plural hormones)
- Alternative form of hormon.
Spanish edit
Verb edit
hormone
- inflection of hormonar: