PROGESTERONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does progesterone mean? 

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

1. a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGESTERONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

Lipo-Lutin; progesterone

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

progestin; progestogen (any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone)

Holonyms ("progesterone" is a substance of...):

anovulant; anovulatory drug; birth control pill; contraceptive pill; oral contraceptive; oral contraceptive pill; pill (a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception)

 Context examples 

More than half the women diagnosed worldwide have cancer that is hormone-positive, where the growth of cancer cells is stimulated by estrogen or progesterone.

(Study: Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, VOA)

Ethynodiol diacetate binds to cytoplasmic progesterone receptors in the reproductive system and subsequently activates progesterone receptor mediated gene expression.

(Ethynodiol Diacetate, NCI Thesaurus)

Etonogestrel binds to the cytoplasmic progesterone receptors in the reproductive system and subsequently activates progesterone receptor mediated gene expression.

(Etonogestrel, NCI Thesaurus)

Describes breast cancer cells that do not have estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, or large amounts of HER2/neu protein.

(ER-negative PR-negative HER2/neu-negative breast cancer, NCI Dictionary)

These cells produce growth factors and hormones that mediate the proliferative response of epithelial cells to the steroid hormones estrogen and progesterone.

(Endometrial Stromal Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

These cells proliferate and respond to the cyclic variations of estrogen and progesterone.

(Endometrial Glandular Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The progesterone derivative fluoro furanyl norprogesterone (FFNP), radiolabeled with fluorine F 18, with positron-emitting radioligand activity.

(Fluorine F 18 Fluoro Furanyl Norprogesterone, NCI Thesaurus)

In women, they cause the ovaries to stop making estrogen and progesterone.

(GnRH agonist, NCI Dictionary)

The hormones are generally estrogen or progesterone or both.

(Oral Contraceptive, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Ovaries also make the female hormones estrogen and progesterone.

(Ovarian Disorders, NIH)