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corticosteroids

corticosteroids is the plural of corticosteroid.

Meaning of corticosteroid

Noun

corticosteroid (plural corticosteroids)

  1. (steroids) Any of a group of steroid hormones, secreted by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in a large range of physiological systems.
  2. Any of several synthetic hormones of related structure.
    • Wúràọlá’s first patient was a man who had not noticed any significant improvement after a regimen of corticosteroids had been prescribed for his spondylosis.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 209

Questions about corticosteroids

What is corticosteroids the plural of?
Corticosteroids is the plural of corticosteroid.

Words near corticosteroids in the dictionary

  1. corticostatin
  2. corticosteroid
  3. corticosteroidal
  4. corticosteroidogenesis
  5. corticosteroidogenic
  6. corticosteroids
  7. corticosterol
  8. corticosterone
  9. corticosteronemia
  10. corticosterones
  11. corticostriatal

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