ADH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ADH mean? 

• ADH (noun)
  The noun ADH has 1 sense:

1. hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules

  Familiarity information: ADH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

ADH; antidiuretic hormone; Pitressin; vasopressin

Hypernyms ("ADH" is a kind of...):

pressor; vasoconstrictive; vasoconstrictor (any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure)

endocrine; hormone; internal secretion (the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect)

 Context examples 

In mammals, this agent interferes with the action of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) at the level of the renal collecting tubule, resulting in aquaresis.

(Demeclocycline hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The neurosecretory granules containing antidiuretic hormone (ADH), oxytocin, ATP or neurophysin in the axon terminals of neurons projecting from the hypothalamus to the posterior pituitary.

(Herring Body, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called ADH and atypical ductal breast hyperplasia.

(Atypical ductal hyperplasia, NCI Dictionary)

Also called ADH and atypical ductal hyperplasia.

(Atypical ductal breast hyperplasia, NCI Dictionary)

ADH-1 selectively and competitively binds to and blocks N-cadherin, which may result in disruption of tumor vasculature, inhibition of tumor cell growth, and the induction of tumor cell and endothelial cell apoptosis.

(ADH-1, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of the synthetic analogues of vassopressin (ADH) with similar properties of the endogenous hormone, such as antidiuretic, increases arterial blood pressure and other neurological effects.

(Antidiuretic Hormone Analogue, NCI Thesaurus)

Having ADH increases the risk of breast cancer.

(ADH, NCI Dictionary)