THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thyroid-stimulating hormone mean? 

• THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE (noun)
  The noun THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE has 1 sense:

1. anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland

  Familiarity information: THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

thyroid-stimulating hormone; thyrotrophic hormone; thyrotrophin; thyrotropic hormone; thyrotropin; TSH

Hypernyms ("thyroid-stimulating 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)

 Context examples 

Lanreotide inhibits the secretion of growth hormone (GH) by binding to pituitary somatostatin receptors, and may inhibit various other hormones, including thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and the gastroenteropancreatic hormones insulin, glucagon and gastrin.

(Lanreotide Acetate Copolymer Microparticles, NCI Thesaurus)

Hyperthyroidism associated with a diffuse hyperplastic goiter resulting from production of an antibody directed against the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor, which acts as an agonist of TSH.

(Graves' Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)