steroid hormone

Questions about steroid hormone

What does steroid hormone mean?

steroid hormone means "any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs".

What is another word for steroid hormone?

Close synonyms include steroid, sex 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 steroid hormone a common word?

steroid 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.