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prothoracicotropic hormones

prothoracicotropic hormones is the plural of prothoracicotropic hormone.

Meaning of prothoracicotropic hormone

Noun

prothoracicotropic hormone (plural prothoracicotropic hormones)

  1. A peptide hormone found in insects, produced in the copora cardiaca or corpus allata, which initiates the release of the ecdysteroid hormone from the prothoracic gland.

Questions about prothoracicotropic hormones

What is prothoracicotropic hormones the plural of?
Prothoracicotropic hormones is the plural of prothoracicotropic hormone.

Words near prothoracicotropic hormones in the dictionary

  1. prothoracic
  2. prothoracic gland
  3. prothoracic glands
  4. prothoracicotropic
  5. prothoracicotropic hormone
  6. prothoracicotropic hormones
  7. prothorax
  8. prothoraxes
  9. Prothro
  10. prothrombic
  11. prothrombin

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