releasing factor

1. 1.

   a substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland

   Synonymsreleasing hormoneRF

   Broaderfactor

   Narrowergrowth hormone-releasing factor
2. 2.

   any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone

   Synonymsreleasing hormoneRHhypothalamic releasing hormonehypothalamic releasing factor

   Broaderhormone

Questions about releasing factor

What does releasing factor mean?

releasing factor means "a substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for releasing factor?

Close synonyms include releasing hormone, RF, releasing hormone, RH, hypothalamic releasing hormone. 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 releasing factor a common word?

releasing factor 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.