HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human growth hormone mean? 

• HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE (noun)
  The noun HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE has 1 sense:

1. a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans

  Familiarity information: HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

growth hormone; human growth hormone; somatotrophic hormone; somatotrophin; somatotropic hormone; somatotropin; STH

Hypernyms ("human growth hormone" is a kind of...):

endocrine; hormone; internal secretion (the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "human growth hormone"):

Protropin (trade name of a synthetic human growth hormone given to children deficient in the hormone; use by athletes and weightlifters is banned)

 Context examples 

A pegylated, recombinant, human growth hormone (GH) structural analog with GH receptor antagonist activity.

(Pegvisomant, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent is more potent than somatostatin in inhibiting the release of human growth hormone (HGH), glucagon, and insulin.

(Pasireotide, NCI Thesaurus)

A clinical finding indicating abnormal and excessive body growth and height resulting from the overproduction of human growth hormone.

(Gigantism, NCI Thesaurus)