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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
mineralocorticoid is a noun meaning "hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium". It carries one recorded sense.
hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mineralocorticoid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.