| 单词 | sex hormone |
| 释义 | > as lemmassex hormone sex hormone n. Biology any of the (natural or synthetic) hormones that affect sexual development or behaviour, esp. those produced by the gonads. ΚΠ 1915 New Phytologist 14 142 The author..suggests that this [inconstancy of secondary sex characters] may be due to the much more restricted action of sex hormones among plants. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1328 Among the seminiferous tubules of the testes there are some interstitial cells which produce a special sex-hormone. 1965 New Scientist 22 Apr. 218/3 The materials contained in the various forms of The Pill are synthetic sex hormones. 2002 Daily Tel. 28 Mar. 9/7 Sex hormone pollution is causing female birds..to sing along with their male counterparts. < as lemmas |
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