human growth hormone

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssomatotropinsomatotrophinsomatotropic hormonesomatotrophic hormoneSTHgrowth hormone

   Broaderhormone

   NarrowerProtropin

Questions about human growth hormone

What does human growth hormone mean?

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

What is another word for human 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 human growth hormone a common word?

human 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.