Word.ws English Dictionary

thyrotropic

thyrotropic adjective: able to stimulate the action of the thyroid gland.

Adjective

thyrotropic (not comparable)

  1. Able to stimulate the action of the thyroid gland
    • Foxl2 is also expressed in the gonadotropic cells of the pituitary gland at 11.5 dpc and in the thyrotropic and gonadotropic cells of the adult pituitary [ 10 ]; in the dorsal maxillary first branchial arch (BA1); and in a delimited domain at the maxillary-mandibular junction at 10.5 dpc [ 11 ].2015 July 2, Mara Marongiu et al., “FOXL2 modulates cartilage, skeletal development and IGF1-dependent growth in mice”, in BMC Developmental Biology, volume 15, →DOI

thyrotropic meaning in Tamil

thyrotropic in Tamil

கேடயச் சுரப்பி யூக்கி

Origin of thyrotropic

From thyro- + -tropic.

Words formed from thyrotropic

Words that rhyme with thyrotropic

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about thyrotropic

What does thyrotropic mean?
Thyrotropic means able to stimulate the action of the thyroid gland.
What is thyrotropic in Tamil?
Thyrotropic in Tamil is கேடயச் சுரப்பி யூக்கி. See Thyrotropic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is thyrotropic?
Thyrotropic is an adjective.

Words near thyrotropic in the dictionary

  1. thyrotroph
  2. thyrotrophic
  3. thyrotrophin
  4. thyrotrophins
  5. thyrotrophs
  6. thyrotropic
  7. thyrotropic hormone
  8. thyrotropin
  9. thyrotropin-releasing hormone
  10. thyrotropinemia
  11. thyrotropinoma

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thyrotropic (page history and authors); thyrotropic (Tamil Wiktionary) (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: “thyrotropic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thyrotropic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.