somatotrophin

Other forms of somatotrophin

plural

somatotrophins·

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 somatotrophin

What does somatotrophin mean?

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

How many syllables are in somatotrophin?

somatotrophin has 5 syllables: so-ma-to-tro-phin. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for somatotrophin?

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

somatotrophin 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.