hrt

Questions about hrt

What does hrt mean?

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

How many syllables are in hrt?

hrt has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hrt?

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

hrt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hrt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.