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steroid

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biochemistry English) A class of organic compounds having a structure of 17 carbon atoms arranged in four rings; they are lipids, and occur naturally as sterols, bile acids, adrenal and sex hormones, and some vitamins; many drugs are synthetic ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A steroid is an organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific configuration . Examples include the dietary lipid cholesterol , the sex hormones estradiol and testosterone and the anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone . Steroids have two principal ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES anabolic steroid COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE anabolic ▪ They were all later released after police dropped charges that they illegally imported anabolic steroids into the country. ▪ Then we each knock back a ...

Usage examples of steroid.

There were antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medication, anabolic steroids, including a full course of prednisone, and at least ten different types of pain medication, including codeine and morphine.

Together with the steroid prednisone, an anti-inflammatory agent, organ transplantation became a possibility for everyone.

They were therefore lumped under the heading of adrenocortical steroids, or, by telescoping the phrase, as corticoids.

But if a goldfish went woof woof, it would be an empty threat, because what harm could a goldfish do you, even a very large, pumped-up on steroids kind of goldfish who had possibly studied all the Sonny Chiba films and knew a lot of spiffy moves?

The doctors gave me steroids and cyclosporine to control it, and that worked, but it also managed to break down my kidneys, which is the emergency flavor of the month.

By decreasing the inflammation with steroids, you can often decrease the pain associated with the inflammation.

No, steroids, especially megadose steroids, provide agitation with all the negative consequences of the word.

So it happened that only Bernice noticed the skateboarding punk-rocker of an Elder God on anabolic steroids who was accelerating ominously towards them from way back down the boulevard, sparks grating from the skateboard wheels, squatting in a kind of schuss position and gnashing her ominously long, needle-sharp teeth.

Nothing short of a truckload of steroids could have delivered the professor from his computer-geek looks.

This included male and female hormones-testosterone, estrogen, progesterone-which affect fertility, sexual aggressiveness and birth control, and during that period of the fifties when the Pill was just beginning to be used, the subject of steroids commanded wide scientific and commercial interest.

Contains processed oleander leaves, saltpeter, oil of peppermint, N-Acetyl-p-aminophenol, zinc oxide, charcoal, cobalt chloride, caffeine, extract of digitalis, steroids in trace amounts, sodium citrate, ascorbic acid, artificial coloring and flavoring.

In the early 1930*5, compounds with androgenic properties were isolated and proved to be steroids.

Suddenly there was both enthusiasm and money for biology, and a torrent of discoveries poured forth: tranquilizers, steroid hormones, immunochemistry, the genetic code.

He’d been treated with IV steroids and bronchodilators as well as humidified air and bed rest.

The steroids in digitalis are something like the bile acids in structure except that the carboxyl group on the side-chain combines with another portion of the chain to form a fifth ring that is not part of the four-ring steroid nucleus.