Synonyms for hormone
ˈhɔr moʊnhor·mone

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1. hormone, endocrine, internal secretionnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   endocrine gland, internal secretion, ductless gland, endocrine

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1. List of paraphrases for "hormone":

   hormones, hormonal, msh, jh

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1. Scott Gottlieb:

   Access to affordable insulin can be a matter of life and death for Americans with diabetes. Insulin is a critical hormone that regulates sugar metabolism, but access to this critical drug can be increasingly difficult for these Americans. Insulin list prices regularly increase by double digits annually.

2. David Reynolds:

   While this large study suggests that women who received some forms of hormone therapy were slightly more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's, it doesn't show that hormone therapy is responsible for this increased risk.

3. Richard Isaacson:

   I wholly agree with this statement but for women in the peri-menopause and early menopause, hormone replacement therapy may sometimes be considered based on a variety of other factors.

4. Armando Giuliano:

   Older women tend to have( slow-growing) breast cancers and more medical problems than younger women and very often they don’t die of breast cancer, frequently, they don’t get chemotherapy because they would n’t tolerate it, and they are going to get hormone treatment no matter what you find in the biopsy.

5. Gillian Coughlan:

   If( our study) is replicated, we may have found a potential biological basis for the results of the Women’s Health Initiative clinical trial, which found women 65 and above were more likely to develop dementia later in life if they took that one type of hormone therapy.