Hormone

Noun

 * 1)  Any substance, produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
 * 2)  A synthetic compound with the same activity.
 * 3) Any similar substance in plants.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:hormone

Derived terms

 * hormonal
 * hormone therapy

Thesaurus
Allen-Doisy hormone, adjuvant, adrenosterone, androgen, androsterone, autacoid, bile, carminative, chalone, cholecystokinin, chondrotrophic hormone, corticosterone, counterirritant, dehydrocorticosterone, digestive secretion, emmenagogue, endocrine, expectorant, gall, gastric juice, insulin, intestinal juice, maturative, mucus, pancreatic juice, progesterone, prostatic fluid, rheum, salivary secretion, semen, sperm, tears, thyroxin, vasodilator, vitamin

Etymology
From ὁρμή:, from ὁρμάω:, ὁρμῶ:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 호르몬
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: hormônio
 * Russian: инкреть
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хормон
 * Roman: hormon
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hormon
 * Tamil: புலங்கள்


 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek:
 * Portuguese: hormônio
 * Swedish: hormon


 * Finnish:, kasvihormoni


 * Swedish: hormon, växthormon

Anagrams

 * moorhen