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Definition of Hormones
1. hormone [n] - See also: hormone
Medical Definition of Hormones
1. Chemical substances having a specific regulatory effect on the activity of a certain organ or organs. The term was originally applied to substances secreted by various endocrine glands and transported in the bloodstream to the target organs. It is sometimes extended to include those substances that are not produced by the endocrine glands but that have similar effects. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hormones
Literary usage of Hormones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Endocrine/Hormone Disrupters hormones hormones are natural secretory products
... Steroid and thyroid hormones, bound to their protein receptors, ..."
2. Internal Secretion and the Ductless Glands by Swale Vincent (1912)
"The two groups are sometimes called " assimilation " and " dissimilation " hormones.
Nothing definite can be stated about the origin of hormones in general. ..."
3. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"hormones in Plants.—Although there is no such effective way of chemical interchange
in plants as there is in the circulating ..."
4. Vital Factors of Foods: Vitamins and Nutrition by Carleton Ellis, Annie Louise Macleod (1922)
"Mendel first used the term hormone in connection with vitamins,104 and Hopkins
afterwards adopted the term " exogenous hormones." Voegtlin and Myers 105 ..."
5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"The well denned changes in uterine responses to posterior pituitary hormones seen
in the rabbit have not been so unequivocally demonstrable in other species ..."
6. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"The hippocampal cells were hormones (Sharma and Meaney un- taken from embryonic
rat pups (E20) published manuscript). Our research and, beginning on the ..."
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