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PROTROPIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Protropin mean?
• PROTROPIN (noun)
The noun PROTROPIN has 1 sense:
1. trade name of a synthetic human growth hormone given to children deficient in the hormone; use by athletes and weightlifters is banned
Familiarity information: PROTROPIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trade name of a synthetic human growth hormone given to children deficient in the hormone; use by athletes and weightlifters is banned
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("Protropin" is a kind of...):
growth hormone; human growth hormone; somatotrophic hormone; somatotrophin; somatotropic hormone; somatotropin; STH (a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans)
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