🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

सोमाटोट्रोपिन

Pronunciation / Transliteration: somatotropin

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Somatotropin/ˌsoʊ.məˈtoʊ.trə.pɪn/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"सोमाटोट्रोपिन बच्चों की वृद्धि के लिए आवश्यक है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A hormone produced by the pituitary gland that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals.

    "Somatotropin is essential for normal growth and development during childhood."
  2. 2

    Synthetic forms of somatotropin are used in medicine to treat growth disorders.

    "Doctors may prescribe somatotropin to children with growth hormone deficiency."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'somatotropin' is derived from the Greek words 'soma', meaning 'body', and 'tropin', meaning 'to turn' or 'to change'. It was first used in the mid-20th century to describe a hormone that stimulates growth and cell reproduction in humans and other animals.

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