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hormone

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Pronunciation
/ˈhɔːməʊn/
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/ˈhɔːməʊn/ · /ˈhoɹmoʊn/ (US)

Definition of hormone

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
    “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”.”
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noun

  1. Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
    “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”.”
  2. A synthetic compound with the same activity.
    “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.”
  3. (colloquial, plural-normally)A synthetic compound with the same activity.
    “I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.”
  4. Any similar substance in plants.

verb

  1. (colloquial, transitive)To treat with hormones.

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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 -ᾰ́ω (-ắō) 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”).

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