Crossword clues for steroid
steroid
- Kind of hormone
- Pro athlete's no-no
- Inflammation treatment
- Androgen, e.g
- Urine test finding
- Substance written about in Jose Canseco's "Juiced"
- Substance in the Baseball Hall of Fame debate
- Substance for a juicer
- Sports no-no
- Sex hormone
- Pro sports no-no
- Prescription proscribed in pro sports
- No-no for an Olympic athlete
- Many an anti-inflammatory medication
- Juicer's juice
- Inhalant ingredient
- HDL or LDL, e.g
- Estrogen, for example
- Estrogen or testosterone
- Drug banned by most pro sports
- Drug abused by some athletes
- Digitalis, e.g
- Banned body builder
- Androgen for one
- ___ era (when players were "juiced")
- Olympian's no-no
- Test subject, often
- Olympics no-no
- Sex hormone, e.g.
- Target of some testing
- Controversial body builder
- Inflammation reducer
- Controversial substance in baseball news
- Illegal substance for athletes
- Any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs
- Many have important physiological effects
- Any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings
- Sex hormone, e.g
- Muscle builder
- Androgen, e.g.
- Hormone or vitamin D
- Athlete's no-no
- Heavenly body in need of a man-made hormone
- Drug for muscle building
- Desperate, so tried bodybuilder’s short cut?
- Organic compound
- Cortisone, e.g
- Body builder?
- Type of drug
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
naturally occuring substance based on a carbon skeleton similar to that of sterol molecules, 1936, from sterol + -oid "resembling." Related: Steroids.
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 steroids. 2 (context bodybuilding English) Any anabolic hormone used to promote muscle growth. 3 (context sports US English) Any chemical compound used to enhance athletic performance.
WordNet
n. any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings; many have important physiological effects
any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs [syn: steroid hormone, sex hormone]
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 biological functions: certain steroids (such as cholesterol) are important components of cell membranes which alter membrane fluidity, and many steroids are signaling molecules which activate steroid hormone receptors.
The steroid core structure is composed of seventeen carbon atoms, bonded in four " fused" rings: three six-member cyclohexane rings (rings A, B and C in the first illustration) and one five-member cyclopentane ring (the D ring). Steroids vary by the functional groups attached to this four-ring core and by the oxidation state of the rings. Sterols are forms of steroids with a hydroxyl group at position three and a skeleton derived from cholestane. They can also vary more markedly by changes to the ring structure (for example, ring scissions which produce secosteroids such as vitamin D).
Hundreds of steroids are found in plants, animals and fungi. All steroids are manufactured in cells from the sterols lanosterol (animals and fungi) or cycloartenol (plants). Lanosterol and cycloartenol are derived from the cyclization of the triterpene squalene.
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.