Word.ws English Dictionary

ghrelins

ghrelins is the plural of ghrelin.

Meaning of ghrelin

Noun

ghrelin (usually uncountable, plural ghrelins)

  1. (usually) A peptide hormone, secreted in the stomach when empty, that increases appetite and secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.
    • We designate the GH-releasing peptide ‘ghrelin’ (ghre is the Proto-Indo-European root of the word ‘grow’).1999 December 9, M[asayasu] Kojima et al., “Ghrelin is a Growth-hormone-releasing Acylated Peptide from Stomach”, in Nature, volume 402, number 6762, →DOI, →PMID, abstract, page 656

Questions about ghrelins

What is ghrelins the plural of?
Ghrelins is the plural of ghrelin.

Words near ghrelins in the dictionary

  1. ghrelin
  2. ghrelinemia
  3. ghrelinergic
  4. ghrelinoma
  5. ghrelinomas
  6. ghrelins
  7. GHRH
  8. GHS
  9. GHSs
  10. ghu
  11. GHUA

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ghrelins (page history and authors); ghrelin (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ghrelins.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ghrelins. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.