adrenal cortical steroid

1. 1.

   a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response

   “adrenal cortical steroids are used to treat many different conditions”

   Synonymscorticosteroidcorticoid

   Broadersteroid hormone

   Narrowermineralocorticoidglucocorticoidhydrocortisonecortisonedexamethasonespironolactonetriamcinolone

Questions about adrenal cortical steroid

What does adrenal cortical steroid mean?

adrenal cortical steroid means "a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response".

What is another word for adrenal cortical steroid?

Close synonyms include corticosteroid, corticoid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adrenal cortical steroid a common word?

adrenal cortical steroid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.