hormones
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hormone/ˈhɔːməʊn/
▶noun a substance produced by specialized cells in a living organism and transported in tissue fluids to regulate the action of specific cells or tissues.
■ (hormones) a person's sex hormones as held to influence behaviour or mood.
– origin early 20th cent.: from Gk hormōn, pres. part. of horman ‘set in motion’.
'hormones' also found in these Oxford entries:
Addison's disease
- adrenal
- anabolic steroid
- androgenize
- biotechnology
- carcinoid
- chloasma
- corticosteroid
- Cushing's syndrome
- diosgenin
- endocrine
- endocrinology
- freemartin
- gastrin
- gibberellin
- gonadotrophin
- hormonal
- hormone
- oestrogen
- steroid
- thyroid
- thyrotropin
- -tropic
- tyrosine
