melanocyte-stimulating hormone

1. 1.

   a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes

   SynonymsMSH

   Broaderhormone

Questions about melanocyte-stimulating hormone

What does melanocyte-stimulating hormone mean?

melanocyte-stimulating hormone means "a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes".

What is another word for melanocyte-stimulating hormone?

Close synonyms include MSH. 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 melanocyte-stimulating hormone a common word?

melanocyte-stimulating 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.