gonadotrophin

Other forms of gonadotrophin

plural

gonadotrophins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gonadotrophin

What does gonadotrophin mean?

gonadotrophin means "hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity".

How many syllables are in gonadotrophin?

gonadotrophin has 5 syllables: go-na-do-tro-phin. The stress falls on "do".

What is another word for gonadotrophin?

Close synonyms include gonadotropin, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotrophic hormone. 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 gonadotrophin a common word?

gonadotrophin 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.