somatotrophic hormone

Questions about somatotrophic hormone

What does somatotrophic hormone mean?

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

What is another word for somatotrophic hormone?

Close synonyms include somatotropin, somatotrophin, somatotropic hormone, STH, human growth 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 somatotrophic hormone a common word?

somatotrophic 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.