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What does hormone mean?

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hormone Noun

— A hormone is a chemical in the human body that causes changes in the body or the brain. When we get upset, our brains send out stress hormones. Sometimes these only make us more stressed. Sometimes, during pregnancy, hormones will make women want to eat very strange things, like pickles and ice cream. — Sex hormones help children develop into adults after puberty. My 16-year-old nephew has raging hormones! All he can think about is girls!

hormone

— noun (= endocrine) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect

Synonyms hormone synonyms

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Topics hormone topics

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Person Body

Internal organs

What words refer to the glands?

adrenal endocrine pituitary thyroid thymus sweat gland salivary gland mammary gland hormone hormonal

Examples hormone examples

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Simple sentences

Harvard scientists have measured the amount of male hormone in the saliva of 58 single and married men with or without children.

Estrogen is a hormone.

Movie subtitles

You've got a hormone deficiency.

You could try one of my hormone injections.

I recommended a hormone injection.

One significant difference between Parmen's blood and Alexander's is a concentration of kironide broken down by a pituitary hormone.

The hormone seems to be the major factor in your mutation, but we just can't identify it.

Now we apply DNA-5, carries genetic information stimulating hormone growth in frogs.

I mean, even with all those hormone shots and everything, a real woman can always tell.

It must be, like, a hormone thing.

And this one has a definite imbalance of hormone in him.

Hey, Mr. Hormone, check out this.

But I've been taking. hormone injections.

I get Jersey hormone pills.

Maybe there's a hormone released by the brain at the time of death.

Is that the brain hormone that creature's drinking?

The one significant difference between Parmen's blood and Alexander's is the concentration of kironide broken down by pituitary hormone.

Coley must be taking hormone shots.

Then special kind. of biological hormone is injected.

Michael, I'm picking up a radical fluctuation in your friends' hormone levels, very similar to that experienced when they were angry.

Forensics thinks the Carrow woman was in the water ten hours, which makes her time of death around 8:30. Absence of bruising, hematomas and low hormone levels indicate there was no struggle.

But I've been taking...hormone injections.

Roughly speaking, heroin stimulates the pituitary to make endorphins, a hormone that creates an incredible sense of well-being.

He's obviously just a great big walking hormone.

It's a hormone.

You're looking at the most powerful concentrate of hormone known, a hormone that retards aging.

Now, a similar hormone was first discovered in insects by a British biologist 20, 25 years ago.

The only trouble with that hormone is it works only in insects.

He's adding the pineal hormone to the Nipe.

They require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male.

It responds well to hormone treatment at early stages.

One that gives him hormone injections that pump him up to six-three. when he's about to pull a job. and then shrink him down to his normal five-nine right afterward, huh?

Some hormone thing, I expect.

News and current affairs

Animal studies have shown that the stress hormone cortisol, together with neurotransmitters in the brain, also plays an important role in the remodeling of neurons.

For example, levels of the stress hormone cortisol increase in the evening, when they are normally low.

The basic adjuvant options are hormone treatments and chemotherapy.

Hormone therapy takes advantage of the fact that many (but not all) breast cancers have receptors for the female hormones estrogen and progesterone.

In contrast to hormone treatments, given only to patients likely to respond by virtue of an analysis of their hormone receptors, chemotherapy is given to all or any eligible patients.

Hence, the impact of chemotherapy appears to be smaller than that of hormone treatments in some patient groups.

Chemotherapy, usually comprising several drugs, is effective at killing cancer cells, increasingly safe, and adds to the effectiveness of hormone therapy.

For example, genetic engineering has eliminated the prion which causes Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, from naturally occurring human growth hormone, and has enabled blood transfusion without risk of HIV infection.

For example, for a decade leading doctors advocated hormone replacement therapy to lower cardiovascular risk in post-menopausal women.

Principles of evidence-based medicine have transformed the way we look at clinical interventions and may prevent repetitions of public-health disasters such as the inappropriate promotion of hormone replacement therapy and anti-arrhythmic drugs.

Today doctors give synthetic growth hormone to short boys, or Propecia to middle-aged men to remedy the shame of baldness.

European attitudes to the import of Caribbean bananas and hormone treated beef arouse strong reactions in North America.

The French study compared all patients who took growth hormone to the general population.

If you or a loved one has taken (or is taking) human growth hormone under a physician's supervision, you shouldn't lose sleep over it.

In the 1980's, a biomarker contributed to the success of the small but seminal clinical trial of human growth hormone in children who were unable to produce it naturally.

Men and women of child-bearing age now carry enough hormone-disturbing compounds in their bodies to impair their fertility.

For early-stage breast cancer patients, genetic markers show whether chemotherapy is likely to have an impact, or if hormone therapy alone is the better option.

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