dehydrocorticosterone
noun
de·hy·dro·corticosterone
(ˌ)dēˌhīdrō+
: a crystalline triketone C21H28O4 extracted from the adrenal cortex and also made synthetically
called also 11-dehydrocorticosterone
see cortisone
Word History
Etymology
International Scientific Vocabulary dehydr- + corticosterone
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