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parahormones

parahormones is the plural of parahormone.

Meaning of parahormone

Noun

parahormone (plural parahormones)

  1. A substance that is a product of ordinary metabolism and not produced for a specific purpose, but acts like a hormone in modifying the activity of some distant organ, as in the case of carbon dioxide acting on the respiratory centre.

Questions about parahormones

What is parahormones the plural of?
Parahormones is the plural of parahormone.

Words near parahormones in the dictionary

  1. parahoplitid
  2. parahoplitids
  3. parahoric
  4. parahormonal
  5. parahormone
  6. parahormones
  7. parahoxozoan
  8. parahoxozoans
  9. parahuman
  10. parahumans
  11. parahydrogen

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