growth hormone-releasing factor

1. 1.

   a releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body

   SynonymsGHRF

   Broaderreleasing factor

Questions about growth hormone-releasing factor

What does growth hormone-releasing factor mean?

growth hormone-releasing factor means "a releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body".

What is another word for growth hormone-releasing factor?

Close synonyms include GHRF. 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-releasing factor a common word?

growth hormone-releasing factor 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.