SEX HORMONE

Meaning of SEX HORMONE in English

noun Date: 1917 a steroid hormone (as estrogen or testosterone) that is produced especially by the ovaries, testes, or adrenal cortex and affects the growth or function of the reproductive organs or the development of secondary sex characteristics

Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012

SEX HORMONE — noun : a hormone having an effect that is usually stimulatory on the growth or function of the reproductive organs …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SEX HORMONE — Biochem. any of a class of steroid hormones that regulate the growth and function of the reproductive organs or stimulate …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SEX HORMONE — chemical material that is released into the bloodstream and stabilizes various processes in the sexual and reproductive system
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SEX HORMONE — Date: 1917 : a steroid hormone (as estrogen or testosterone) that is produced especially by the ovaries, testes, or adrenal …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SEX HORMONE — Function: noun Date: 1917 : a steroid hormone (as estrogen or testosterone) that is produced especially by the ovaries, testes, …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SEX HORMONE — ■ noun a hormone affecting sexual development or reproduction, such as oestrogen or testosterone.
Concise Oxford English vocab
SEX HORMONE — [sex hormone] n (1917): a hormone (as from the gonads or adrenal cortex) that affects the growth or function of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SEX HORMONE — a chemical substance produced by a sex gland or other organ that has an effect on the sexual features of …
Britannica English vocabulary
SEX HORMONE — половой гормон (биология) половой гормон
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SEX HORMONE — биол. половой гормон
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SEX HORMONE — половой гормон
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
SEX HORMONE — половой гормон
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
SEX HORMONE — биол. половой гормон
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
SEX HORMONE — половой гормон
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SEX HORMONE — биол. половой гормон
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
SEX HORMONE — биол. половой гормон
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SEX HORMONE — половой гормон
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
SEX HORMONE — половой гормон
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
SEX HORMONE — см. gonadal hormone
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
SEX HORMONE — см. gonadal hormone
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
SEX HORMONE — половой гормон (биология) половой гормон
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HORMONE — noun see: rise Date: 1905 a product of living cells that circulates in body fluids (as blood) or sap and …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HORMONE — Organic compound (often a steroid or peptide ) that is produced in one part of a multicellular organism and travels …
Английский словарь Британика
SEX — I. ˈseks noun ( -es ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Latin sexus; probably akin to Latin secare …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HORMONE — ˈhȯrˌmōn, ˈhȯ(ə)ˌ- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Greek hormōn, present participle of horman to stir up, set in motion, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HORMONE — (n.) A chemical substance formed in one organ and carried in the circulation to another organ on which it exerts …
Английский словарь Webster
SEX — /seks/ , n. 1. either the male or female division of a species, esp. as differentiated with reference to the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HORMONE — — hormonal, hormonic /hawr mon"ik, -moh"nik/ , adj. /hawr"mohn/ , n. 1. Biochem. any of various internally secreted compounds, as …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SEX — v. identify the sex of, determine sex of something; excite, arouse the sexual desires; turn on, arouse in a sexual …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HORMONE — n. any of a number of substances which are secreted into the bloodstream by endocrine glands and stimulate particular organs …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SEX — I. ˈseks noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin sexus Date: 14th century 1. : either of the two major forms …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HORMONE — noun Etymology: Greek hormōn, present participle of horman to stir up, from hormē impulse, assault; akin to Greek ornynai to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SEX — noun one of the groups founded on this distinction. 2. sex ·noun one of the two divisions of organic beings …
Webster English vocab
HORMONE — add. ·noun a chemical substance formed in one organ and carried in the circulation to another organ on which it …
Webster English vocab
HORMONE — ■ noun a substance produced by specialized cells in a living organism and transported in tissue fluids to regulate the …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SEX — [sex] n [ME, fr. L sexus] (14c) 1: either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HORMONE — [hor.mone] n [Gk hormon, prp. of horman to stir up, fr. horme impulse, assault; akin to Gk ornynai to rouse--more …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SEX — the sum of features by which members of species can be divided into two groupsmale and femalethat complement each other …
Britannica English vocabulary
HORMONE — organic substance that is produced in one part of a multicellular organism and is able to exert effects on other, …
Britannica English vocabulary
SEX — sex BrE AmE seks ▷ sexed sekst (= sext) ▷ sexes ˈseks ɪz -əz ▷ sexing ˈseks ɪŋ ▶ ˈ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HORMONE — hormone BrE AmE ˈhɔːm əʊn AmE \ ˈhɔːrm oʊn ▷ hormone|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SEX — / seks; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ U , C ] the state of being male …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HORMONE — / ˈhɔːməʊn; NAmE ˈhɔːrmoʊn/ noun a chemical substance produced in the body or in a plant that encourages growth or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SEX — I. sex 1 S1 W2 AC /seks/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ sex , ↑ sexism …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HORMONE — hor ‧ mone /ˈhɔːməʊn $ ˈhɔːrmoʊn/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1900-2000 ; Language: Greek ; Origin: hormon , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SEX — n., adj., & v. --n. 1 either of the main divisions (male and female) into which living things are placed …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SEX — n., adj., & v. n. 1 either of the main divisions (male and female) into which living things are placed …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SEX — n., adj., & v. --n. 1. either of the main divisions (male and female) into which living things are placed …
Oxford English vocab
SEX — ( sexes, sexing, sexed) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The two …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HORMONE — ( hormones) A hormone is a chemical, usually occurring naturally in your body, that makes an organ of your body …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SEX — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sex crime (= in which someone is sexually attacked ) a sex scandal …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HORMONE — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES hormone replacement therapy COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE antidiuretic ▪ Thus, antidiuretic hormone should be …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HORMONE — n. Organic compound (often a steroid or peptide ) that is produced in one part of a multicellular organism and …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
HORMONE — Synonyms and related words : Allen-Doisy hormone, adjuvant, adrenosterone, androgen, androsterone, autacoid, bile, carminative, chalone, cholecystokinin, chondrotrophic hormone, corticosterone, counterirritant, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SEX — noun 1 male or female ADJECTIVE ▪ female , male ▪ opposite ▪ At that age they can start becoming …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HORMONE — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ female , male ▪ growth , sex ▪ children who do not produce enough growth ~ VERB …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SEX — INDEX: relating to being male or female 1. male or female 2. places for people of both sexes 3. for …
Longman Activator English vocab
SEX — See ↑ SEX 1,4 ◆◆◆ • ↑ casual sex • ↑ have sex
Longman Activator English vocab
SEX — n. 25B6; noun they talked about sex : SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, intercourse, lovemaking, making love, sex act, (sexual) relations; mating, copulation; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SEX — /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
SEX — n. 1 gender It is difficult to determine the sex of some of the lower animals 2 sexual intercourse or …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
HORMONE — Chemical substance produced in the body that controls and regulates the activity of certain cells or organs. A hormone originally …
English Dictionary of Medicine
SEX — [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of …
Jargon File English vocabulary
HORMONE — a substance created by one organ, transmitted to another organ by the blood, that causes some activity in the second …
AIDS English Glossary

Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster

← SEX GLAND SEX KITTEN→