hormone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ὁρμή (hormḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Ancient Greek -άω (-áō)
Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn)lbor.
English hormone
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: hormones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hormones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hormoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hormoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hormoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
pos: noun
examples: Interfemale dominance may be facilitated by female sex hormones as well as adrenal testosterone...
Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.
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”.
gloss: A synthetic compound with the same activity.
pos: noun
examples: Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones […]
Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.
gloss: A synthetic compound with the same activity.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural-normally
examples: I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.
gloss: Any similar substance in plants.
pos: noun
gloss: To treat with hormones.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
Synonyms: hormone
Related words: steroid
:Category:Hormones
Derived words: 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
Müllerian-inhibiting hormone
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
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: hormon
lang: Esperanto
word: hormono
lang: Finnish
word: hormoni
lang: Greek
word: ορμόνη
roman: ormóni
lang: Hungarian
word: hormon
lang: Portuguese
word: hormônio
lang: Portuguese
word: hormona
lang: Swedish
word: hormon