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ACTH

ACTH is the initialism of adrenocorticotropic hormone.

Meaning of adrenocorticotropic hormone

Noun

adrenocorticotropic hormone (plural adrenocorticotropic hormones, abbreviation ACTH)

  1. A peptide hormone, secreted by the pituitary gland, that stimulates the secretion of other hormones

Questions about ACTH

What is ACTH the initialism of?
ACTH is the initialism of adrenocorticotropic hormone.

Words near ACTH in the dictionary

  1. acteth
  2. ACTEX
  3. ACTFL
  4. actg
  5. actg.
  6. ACTH
  7. acti
  8. actially
  9. actibelt
  10. actibelts
  11. actidione

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ACTH (page history and authors); adrenocorticotropic hormone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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