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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hormonal

Hormonal \Hor*mon"al\ (h[^o]r*m[=o]n"al), a. of, pertaining to, or affected by, hormones.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hormonal

1926, from hormone + -al (1). Related: Hormonally.

Wiktionary
hormonal

a. 1 (context hormone English) Pertaining to hormones. 2 (context colloquial English) Of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle. 3 Strongly affected by one's hormones, especially of women.

WordNet
hormonal

adj. of or relating to or caused by hormones; "hormonal changes"

Usage examples of "hormonal".

What is important is the balance of protein to carbohydrate, because that balance will control the hormonal responses of insulin and glucagon for the next four to six hours.

It appears that isoflavones need to be consumed with soy protein in order to exert their cardiovascular and hormonal benefits.

At least some of the emotion-determining role of such limbic endocrine systems as the pituitary amygdala, and hypothalamus is provided by small hormonal proteins which they exude, and which affect other areas of the brain.

Maybe a lot of guys assumed that being a masseuse meant she was loose as a goose, but guys, by their hormonal nature, always indulged in wishful thinking.

Estrogens and progesterone are just part of a complex and closely interlinked hormonal system that includes many other hormones, including testosterone, DHEA, pregnenolone, and melatonin, to name just a few.

These properties were not, of course, all shared by all proteinoids, for Fox could vary the properties of the proteinoid by varying the amino acids in the initial mixture, thus changing their susceptibility or resemblance to enzymes and conferring or removing their hormonal activity.

The Factotum was ever alert, feeding Quath a torrent of data, all encoded in hormonal tangs and filigrees.

These Zone Food Blocks, which are explained in greater detail in Chapter 7, allow you to make ingredient changes without affecting the hormonal response to the meal.

The Feline Breeds have experienced this, but conception occurs quickly in them, without drugs or hormonal treatments.

Her body had no need for the hormonal flood of puberty, but the software had ground on relentlessly, simulating all the neuroendocrine effects.

Typical of the breed was the Revd Sylvester Graham, who equated insanity with eating ketchup and mustard, and believed that the consumption of meat would result in the sort of hormonal boisterousness that leads men to take advantage of pliant women.

In a smaller number of cases, thyrotoxic crisis caused the body to simply shut down due to hormonal imbalances.

Some more spelunking took him to the Geocities page of a person born male who underwent castration, with no hormonal treatments before or for years after.

In addition to chromosomal and hormonal factors, Luce had to consider my sex of rearing, which had beenfemale .

Out of the other end came an endless conveyorlike blobbed stream of eggs, each one packed in a thick hormonal paste of lubrication.