SEX HORMONE

Meaning of SEX HORMONE in English

[sex hormone] n (1917): a hormone (as from the gonads or adrenal cortex) that affects the growth or function of the reproductive organs or the development of secondary sex characteristics

Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012

SEX HORMONE — noun Date: 1917 a steroid hormone (as estrogen or testosterone) that is produced especially by the ovaries, testes, or adrenal …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
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
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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 — 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
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SEX HORMONE — половой гормон
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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
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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 …
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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

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