oestrin
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edit- estrin (US)
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editoestrin (countable and uncountable, plural oestrins)
- (biochemistry, now rare) An oestrogen, specifically oestrone.
- 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
- Encouraged by his friends Solly Zuckerman and J. B. S. Haldane, Bernal had obtained crystals of calciferol and the female sex hormone oestrin.