FSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does FSH mean? 

• FSH (noun)
  The noun FSH has 1 sense:

1. a gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates the cells in male mammals that form sperm

  Familiarity information: FSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates the cells in male mammals that form sperm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

follicle-stimulating hormone; FSH

Hypernyms ("FSH" is a kind of...):

gonadotrophic hormone; gonadotrophin; gonadotropic hormone; gonadotropin (hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity)

 Context examples 

A measurement of the follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in a biological specimen.

(Follicle Stimulating Hormone Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The combination of ethinyl estradiol with norgestrel suppresses the hypothalamic-pituitary system, leading to an inhibition of the release of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), thus suppressing the development of ovarian follicles.

(Ethinyl Estradiol/Norgestrel, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result endogenous pituitary output of FSH and LH is shut down.

(Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Antagonist, NCI Thesaurus)

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion from the hypothalamus acts upon its receptor in the anterior pituitary to regulate the production and release of the gonadotropins, LH and FSH.

(Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

GnRH causes the pituitary gland to make luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).

(GnRH, NCI Dictionary)

An adenoma of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland that produces gonadotrophic hormones (FSH and/or LH) or shows evidence towards gonadotroph differentiation.

(Gonadotropin-Producing Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

GnRH causes the pituitary gland to make luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).

(Gonadotropin-releasing hormone, NCI Dictionary)

Ethinyl estradiol inhibits the release of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), thus suppressing the development of ovarian follicle; levonorgestrel inhibits the release of luteinizing hormone (LH), thus preventing ovulation.

(Ethinyl Estradiol/Levonorgestrel, NCI Thesaurus)

Ethinyl estradiol inhibits the release of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), thus suppressing the development of ovarian follicle; norethindrone levonorgestrel inhibits the release of luteinizing hormone (LH), thus preventing ovulation.

(Ethinyl Estradiol/Norethindrone, NCI Thesaurus)

The inhibition of FSH release suppresses the development of ovarian follicle.

(Drospirenone/Ethinyl Estradiol, NCI Thesaurus)