Term: progesterone: a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy
Candidate hypernym: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists → 1
Candidate hypernym: cephalothin: a semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin → 0
Candidate hypernym: hind: any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers → 0
Candidate hypernym: ocelot: nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat → 0
Candidate hypernym: states' rights democratic party: a former political party in the United States; formed in 1948 by Democrats from southern states in order to oppose to the candidacy of Harry S Truman → 0
Candidate hypernym: strangulation: the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage → 0
Candidate hypernym: syncope: (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') → 0
Candidate hypernym: organic chemistry: the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially) → 0
Candidate hypernym: preferment: the act of making accusations → 0
Candidate hypernym: pisum: small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas → 0
Candidate hypernym: angiology: the branch of medical science that studies the blood and lymph vessels and their disorders → 0