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CORTICOTROPIN

Dictionary entry overview: What does corticotropin mean?

• CORTICOTROPIN (noun)
The noun CORTICOTROPIN has 1 sense:

1. a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex

Familiarity information: CORTICOTROPIN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CORTICOTROPIN (noun)

Sense 1

corticotropin ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

ACTH; adrenocorticotrophic hormone; adrenocorticotrophin; adrenocorticotropic hormone; adrenocorticotropin; corticotrophin; corticotropin

Hypernyms ("corticotropin" is a kind of...):

endocrine; hormone; internal secretion (the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect)

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