prostaglandin

1. 1.

   a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity

   Broaderautacoid

Other forms of prostaglandin

plural

prostaglandins·

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.

Questions about prostaglandin

What does prostaglandin mean?

prostaglandin means "a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity".

How many syllables are in prostaglandin?

prostaglandin has 4 syllables: pro-sta-glan-din. The stress falls on "glan". In IPA it is /pɹoʊstæˈɡlændɪn/.

Is prostaglandin a common word?

prostaglandin 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.