corticotropin

Questions about corticotropin

What does corticotropin mean?

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

How many syllables are in corticotropin?

corticotropin has 5 syllables and divides as cor-ti-co-tro-pin 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 corticotropin?

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 corticotropin a common word?

corticotropin 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.