PROGESTIN

progestin, progestogen

(noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

progestin (countable and uncountable, plural progestins)

(chemistry) A synthetic progestagen intended to mimic the effects of progesterone, often for contraceptive purposes.

Anagrams

• G proteins, G-proteins, postering, reposting

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

29 June 2024

INITIALISM

(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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