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minerocorticoid

minerocorticoid is the alternative form of mineralocorticoid.

Meaning of mineralocorticoid

Noun

mineralocorticoid (plural mineralocorticoids)

  1. (steroids) Any of a group of steroid hormones, characterised by their similarity to aldosterone and their influence on salt and water metabolism.
    • Severely undervirilized males may have normal mineralocorticoid activity; fully masculinized males may display salt loss.2011, Christine A. Gleason, Sandra E. Juul, Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, page 1301

Forms of minerocorticoid

pluralminerocorticoids

Questions about minerocorticoid

What is minerocorticoid the alternative form of?
Minerocorticoid is the alternative form of mineralocorticoid.

Words near minerocorticoid in the dictionary

  1. mineralomasses
  2. minerals
  3. mineratrophic
  4. mineries
  5. Minero
  6. minerocorticoid
  7. minerocorticoids
  8. minerogenesis
  9. minerogenetic
  10. minerogenic
  11. mineroller

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