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corticosterones

corticosterones is the plural of corticosterone.

Meaning of corticosterone

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

Questions about corticosterones

What is corticosterones the plural of?
Corticosterones is the plural of corticosterone.

Words near corticosterones in the dictionary

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

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