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growth hormone

Word definitions for growth hormone in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans [syn: somatotropin , somatotrophin , somatotropic hormone , somatotrophic hormone , STH , human growth hormone ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any polypeptide hormone, secreted by the pituitary gland, that promotes growth and regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. 2 Any synthetic substance that promotes growth in animals or plants.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Growth hormone ( GH ), also known as somatotropin (or as human growth hormone [hGH or HGH] in its human form), is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals. It is thus important in human ...

Usage examples of growth hormone.

It sometimes happens that the pituitary of an adult, who has achieved his full measurements and has ceased growing long since, begins to produce an oversupply of growth hormone.

Alvin Hayes was a world-class molecular biologist who had been on the cover of Time magazine after having developed a method of making human growth hormone from recombinant DNA technology.

The growth hormone he had made was exactly like the human variety.

There was no way she could synthesize the growth hormone I needed.

It could be fatal if not controlled by injections of a cocktail of enzymes that included vitamin B12 and a growth hormone that prompted my body to create new red blood cells.

I just don't know about stepping up the growth hormone, Vaagen's so uncertain about its effect on bone friability.

But when thirty square feet of rhubarb plants began breathing out carbon monoxide as a result of sudden heredity changes brought on by the ganimexene Macduff was promptly sent down to the kitchens, where he introduced a growth hormone into the soup, with nearly catastrophic results.

Six months was how long it took a moldie's body to generate a sufficient amount of its reproductive growth hormone.

Due to the growth hormone limitation, the Cappy Jane moldies couldn't reproduce any further than that, but for a while they kept pecking, bulking up their bodies with additional imipolex.

The six-month condition had to do with the fact that, when reproducing, a moldie's system generated a growth hormone that spurred its mold-and-algae nervous system to speed-grow a fresh nervous system into virgin imipolex.