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sex hormones

n. (sex hormone English)

Usage examples of "sex hormones".

In fact, several years before this film was made the CIA had indeed plotted, if not to castrate Castro outright, at least to devirilize him by lacing his food with female sex hormones.

That gland, the adrenal cortex, also produces sex hormones, and especially androgens.

Why this should be so nobody knows -- in some other mammals, such as rats and mice, male nipple development is completely suppressed by the male sex hormones.

By the time I'm done with them, the kids at the dance will have adrenaline and sex hormones giving them such a rush that the ones that don't start a riot will probably go out to their cars and screw each other's brains out!

You think I want to go through all this and still come out swilling full of semen and sex hormones?

He would never be driven to irrational actions by turbulent sex hormones—.

The only departures from the mean that people consistently find attractive are ones caused by sex hormones, which suggest good reproductive potential.

He began to talk, as detachedly as possible, about statistics of homosexuality, factors of childhood influence, of sex hormones, trying to see her face in the half light.

The medical specialists Vikary had consulted on Avalon had told him that, based on the meager evidence he gave them-a few ancient poems and songs-it seemed likely that the female sex hormones acted as a catalyst for the disease.

Harold Atwood (thank you for the study of sex hormones in unborn mice, and other arcana).