thyrotropin

Questions about thyrotropin

What does thyrotropin mean?

thyrotropin means "anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland".

How many syllables are in thyrotropin?

thyrotropin has 4 syllables and divides as thy-ro-tro-pin under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for thyrotropin?

Close synonyms include thyrotropic hormone, thyrotrophin, thyrotrophic hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, TSH. 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 thyrotropin a common word?

thyrotropin 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.