adrenocorticotrophic hormone

What does adrenocorticotrophic hormone mean?

adrenocorticotrophic hormone means "a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex".

What is another word for adrenocorticotrophic hormone?

Close synonyms include adrenocorticotropic hormone, ACTH, adrenocorticotropin, adrenocorticotrophin, corticotropin. 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 adrenocorticotrophic hormone a common word?

adrenocorticotrophic hormone 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for adrenocorticotrophic hormone come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.