corticotrophin

Questions about corticotrophin

What does corticotrophin mean?

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

How many syllables are in corticotrophin?

corticotrophin has 5 syllables and divides as cor-ti-co-tro-phin under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for corticotrophin?

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

corticotrophin 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.