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ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC HORMONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adrenocorticotrophic hormone mean?
• ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC HORMONE (noun)
The noun ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC HORMONE has 1 sense:
1. a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex
Familiarity information: ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC HORMONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC HORMONE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
ACTH; adrenocorticotrophic hormone; adrenocorticotrophin; adrenocorticotropic hormone; adrenocorticotropin; corticotrophin; corticotropin
Hypernyms ("adrenocorticotrophic hormone" is a kind of...):
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
A syndrome characterized by abnormal secretion of adrenocorticotrophic hormone in conjunction with neoplastic growth occurring anywhere in the body.
(Ectopic ACTH Secretion Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
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