GLUCOCORTICOID


Meaning of GLUCOCORTICOID in English

/glooh'koh kawr"ti koyd'/ , n. Biochem.

any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.

[ 1945-50; GLUCO- + CORTIC- + -OID; cf. CORTICOSTEROID ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .