parahormone

English

Etymology

From para- +‎ hormone.

Noun

parahormone (plural parahormones)

1. A substance that is a product of ordinary metabolism and not produced for a specific purpose, but acts like a hormone in modifying the activity of some distant organ, as in the case of carbon dioxide acting on the respiratory centre.

Related terms

• parahormonal

Translations

Translations

• Russian: па̀рагормо́н (ru) m inan (pàragormón)

Anagrams

• araneomorph