PROTROPIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Protropin mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTROPIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

growth hormone; human growth hormone; somatotrophic hormone; somatotrophin; somatotropic hormone; somatotropin; STH (a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans)