gonadotropic hormone

1. 1.

   hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity

   Synonymsgonadotropingonadotrophingonadotrophic hormone

   Broaderhormone

   Narrowerfollicle-stimulating hormonehuman chorionic gonadotropinluteinizing hormoneprolactin

Questions about gonadotropic hormone

What does gonadotropic hormone mean?

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

What is another word for gonadotropic hormone?

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

gonadotropic 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.