growth hormone

Questions about growth hormone

What does growth hormone mean?

growth hormone means "a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans".

What is another word for growth hormone?

Close synonyms include somatotropin, somatotrophin, somatotropic hormone, somatotrophic hormone, STH. 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 growth hormone a common word?

growth 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.