releasing hormone
releasing hormone · releasing hormones
Releasing-Hormon
A hormone that is involved primarily in stimulating the release of another hormoneA hormone that is involved primarily in stimulating the release of another hormone.
Meaning
1 sensesA hormone that is involved primarily in stimulating the release of another hormone.
Releasing-Hormon
More definitions
- 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
- a substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland
Translations
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By meaning 1
hormone that is involved primarily in stimulating the release of another hormone:
Forms
plural: releasing hormones| Singular | releasing hormone |
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Synonyms
6 synonymsClose in meaning
- 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:RHreleasing factorhypothalamic releasing hormonehypothalamic releasing factor
- a substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland:releasing factorRF
Antonyms
2 antonymsSee also
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