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corticosterone

corticosterone noun: a corticosteroid hormone, produced in the adrenal glands, involved in metabolism.

Noun

corticosterone (countable and uncountable, plural corticosterones)

  1. (steroids) A corticosteroid hormone, produced in the adrenal glands, involved in metabolism.
    • “The brain doesn’t get the rest it needs, resulting in a drop in executive function and accompanied by an increase in corticosterone levels.”2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 206

Forms of corticosterone

pluralcorticosterones

Origin of corticosterone

From cortico- + -sterone.

Words formed from corticosterone

Questions about corticosterone

What does corticosterone mean?
Corticosterone means a corticosteroid hormone, produced in the adrenal glands, involved in metabolism.
What part of speech is corticosterone?
Corticosterone is a noun.
What is the plural of corticosterone?
The plural of corticosterone is corticosterones.

Words near corticosterone in the dictionary

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

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