hormone replacement therapy

1. 1.

   hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis

   Synonymshormone-replacement therapyHRT

   Broadertherapy

Questions about hormone replacement therapy

What does hormone replacement therapy mean?

hormone replacement therapy means "hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis".

What is another word for hormone replacement therapy?

Close synonyms include hormone-replacement therapy, HRT. 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 hormone replacement therapy a common word?

hormone replacement therapy 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.