hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːməʊn/
ipa: /ˈhoɹmoʊn/
Forms: form: hormones
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: Interfemale dominance may be facilitated by female sex hormones as well as adrenal testosterone...
ref: 1998, Paul Valent, Trauma and fulfillment therapy: a wholist framework:
text: Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 165:
text: The text recounts a 2011 experiment: Researchers tested 136 healthy young men’s testosterone levels, asked them about their political party affiliations, then gave them either a placebo or ten grams of AndroGel one percent, a high-end dose of a common form of testosterone often used in hormone replacement therapies. […] Alogaily and the paper’s co-authors argued that this is “evidence that neuro-active hormones affect political preferences”.
ref: 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
examples: text: Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones […]
ref: 1962, D. J. B. Ashley, Human Intersex:
text: Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.
ref: 2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal Care?”, in Front Endocrinol, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic compound with the same activity.
examples: text: I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic compound with the same activity.
Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any similar substance in plants.
Synonyms: word: hormone
Hyponyms: word: anabolic steroid
word: androgen
word: angiotensin
word: catecholamine
word: corticosteroid
word: estrogen
word: gibberellin
word: glucocorticoid
word: growth hormone
word: mineralocorticoid
word: oestrogen
Derived terms: adipohormone
adrenocorticotropic hormone
allohormone
antidiuretic hormone
antihormone
anti-Müllerian hormone
bovine growth hormone
caudodorsal cell hormone
corticotropin-releasing hormone
dorsal body hormone
ectohormone
enterohormone
follicle stimulating hormone
follicle-stimulating hormone
glycohormone
gonadotropin-releasing hormone
growth hormone
hormonal
hormonelike
hormone replacement therapy
hormone-replacement therapy
hormones
hormone therapy
hormonization
hormonize
hormonogenesis
hormonology
hormonome
hormonomics
juvenile hormone
light green cell hormone
luteinising hormone
luteinizing hormone
melanocyte-stimulating hormone
'mones
mones
multihormone
necrohormone
neurohormone
neurohypophysis hormone
nonhormone
orgone
parahormone
parathormone
parathyroid hormone
phytohormone
plant hormone
prehormone
preprohormone
prohormone
proteohormone
prothoracicotropic hormone
releasing hormone
rooting hormone
sex hormone
sex hormone binding globulin
sex hormone-binding globulin
sex-hormone-binding globulin
thyroid hormone
thyroid-stimulating hormone
thyrotropic hormone
thyrotropin-releasing hormone
trophic hormone
tropic hormone
xenohormone
Related terms: word: steroid
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