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SOMATOTROPIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somatotropin mean? 

SOMATOTROPIN (noun)
  The noun SOMATOTROPIN has 1 sense:

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SOMATOTROPIN (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 ("somatotropin" 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 "somatotropin"):

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 


This allele, which encodes somatotropin protein, plays a role in the stimulation of insulin-like growth factor 1 secretion.

(GH1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called somatotropin.

(Growth hormone, NCI Dictionary)



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