Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several steroid hormones produced primarily by the ovaries that stimulate the development and maintenance of female secondary sex characteristics, exert systemic effects such as the growth and maturation of long bones, promote estrus in many female mammals, and are used as a drug primarily to treat estrogen deficiency.
- noun Any of several synthetic compounds that mimic the physiologic activity of estrogen, used primarily in oral contraceptives.
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- noun biochemistry Any of a group of
steroids that aresecreted by theovaries andfunction asfemale sex hormones .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A lot of us like to fling around the word estrogen the way a pizza maker flings around dough, but the truth is that estrogen is a lot more complicated than that.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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A lot of us like to fling around the word estrogen the way a pizza maker flings around dough, but the truth is that estrogen is a lot more complicated than that.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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A lot of us like to fling around the word estrogen the way a pizza maker flings around dough, but the truth is that estrogen is a lot more complicated than that.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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Sounds like the boys had some fun but If you ask the “Debby Downers” from women advocacy groups like the National Organization for Women, the games lack of estrogen is unacceptable.
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The inverse association in women could reflect a genetic resilience to disease seen in older people called the survivorship effect plus the protective effects of long-term estrogen exposure, they said.
Abdominal Fat May Boost Risk of Eye Disease Ann Lukits 2011
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Changing testosterone into estrogen is very important because breast cancer is often estrogen dependent, says Hayes.
Annie Spiegelman: Living Downstream: Steingraber Documentary Puts Moral Imperative on Banning Cancer-Causing Chemicals Annie Spiegelman 2010
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Determined not to let the magazine be "drowned in estrogen," she said she would have almost exclusively male writers as they knew a lot more about sex.
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Sounds like the boys had some fun but If you ask the “Debby Downers” from women advocacy groups like the National Organization for Women, the games lack of estrogen is unacceptable.
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Changing testosterone into estrogen is very important because breast cancer is often estrogen dependent, says Hayes.
Annie Spiegelman: Living Downstream: Steingraber Documentary Puts Moral Imperative on Banning Cancer-Causing Chemicals Annie Spiegelman 2010
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Changing testosterone into estrogen is very important because breast cancer is often estrogen dependent, says Hayes.
Annie Spiegelman: Living Downstream: Steingraber Documentary Puts Moral Imperative on Banning Cancer-Causing Chemicals Annie Spiegelman 2010
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