SEX HORMONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sex hormone mean? 

• SEX HORMONE (noun)
  The noun SEX HORMONE has 1 sense:

1. any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs

  Familiarity information: SEX HORMONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEX HORMONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

sex hormone; steroid; steroid hormone

Hypernyms ("sex 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sex hormone"):

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

androgen; androgenic hormone (male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics)

estrogen; oestrogen (a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics)

adrenal cortical steroid; corticoid; corticosteroid (a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response)

anabolic steroid (any of a group of synthetic steroid hormones used to stimulate muscle and bone growth; more than 100 have been developed and each requires a prescription to be used legally in the United States; sometimes used illicitly by athletes to increase their strength)

 Context examples 

A combination of two steroid sex hormones, the semisynthetic estrogen ethinyl estradiol and the synthetic progestogen norgestrel, with contraceptive activity.

(Ethinyl Estradiol/Norgestrel, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic form of the naturally occurring female sex hormone progesterone.

(Etonogestrel, NCI Thesaurus)

GG745 blocks enzymes the body needs to make male sex hormones.

(GG745, NCI Dictionary)

A combination of two steroid sex hormones, an estrogen and a progestin, used for contraceptive purposes.

(Ethinyl Estradiol/Levonorgestrel, NCI Thesaurus)

Purified orally bioavailable female sex hormones isolated from pregnant mare urine or synthetically derived from plant materials and primarily conjugated as sulfate esters.

(Estrogens, Conjugated, NCI Thesaurus)

The parenterally-administered synthetic valerate ester of estradiol, a steroid sex hormone vital to the maintenance of fertility and secondary sexual characteristics in females.

(Estradiol Valerate, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of sex hormones associated with the development and maintenance of secondary female sex characteristics and control of the cyclical changes in the reproductive cycle.

(Estrogen, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A substance that keeps the testicles and ovaries from making sex hormones by blocking other hormones that are needed to make them.

(GnRH agonist, NCI Dictionary)

The birth control method that utilizes external source of sex hormones to prevent pregnancy by interfering with the ovulation, fertilization or implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterus.

(Hormonal Contraception, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of drugs that decrease the production of sex hormones (estrogen or testosterone) and slow the growth of tumors that need sex hormones to grow.

(Non-Steroidal Aromatase Inhibitor, NCI Dictionary)