hormone

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːməʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoɹmoʊn/

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hormone (plural hormones)

1. (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
   • 1998, Paul Valent, Trauma and fulfillment therapy: a wholist framework:

     Interfemale dominance may be facilitated by female sex hormones as well as adrenal testosterone...

   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 165:

     Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.

   • 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE‎^[1]:

     The text recounts a 2011 experiment: Researchers tested 136 healthy young men’s testosterone levels, asked them about their political party affiliations, then gave them either a placebo or ten grams of AndroGel one percent, a high-end dose of a common form of testosterone often used in hormone replacement therapies. […] Alogaily and the paper’s co-authors argued that this is “evidence that neuro-active hormones affect political preferences”.

2. (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
   • 1962, D. J. B. Ashley, Human Intersex:

     Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones […]

   • 2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal Care?”, in Front Endocrinol, →DOI:

     Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.

   1. (LGBTQ, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.

      I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.

3. (botany) Any similar substance in plants.

• See also Thesaurus:hormone

hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)

1. (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones.

• moorhen

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.mɔn/

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hormone f (plural hormones)

1. hormone

• hormonal

• “hormone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

hormone (plural hormones)

1. alternative form of hormon

hormone

1. inflection of hormonar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative