Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prothoracicotropic hormone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pro-tho-raci-cotrop-ic hor-mone
IPA

43

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A peptide hormone found in insects, produced in the copora cardiaca or corpus allata, which initiates the release of the ecdysteroid hormone from the prothoracic gland.

Inflected Forms

prothoracicotropic hormones (plural)

Questions

What does prothoracicotropic hormone mean?: A peptide hormone found in insects, produced in the copora cardiaca or corpus allata, which initiates the release of the ecdysteroid hormone from the prothoracic gland.

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