Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
somatotrophin
(som¦ato|troph¦in)
Pronunciation:
/ˌsəʊmətə(ʊ)ˈtrəʊfɪn/
noun
[
mass noun
]
Biochemistry
a growth hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland.
Search results in the dictionary
bovine somatotrophin
More results »
More words in this category
antidromic
digest
entrain
2
evacuate
lax
macro-
meconium
menorrhagia
mitogen
musculoskeletal
osteoblast
phagocyte
pulsatile
saliva
satiety
sweat
tonus
transcortical
vasospasm
white cell
Nearby Words
somatic
somatic cell
somatic mutation
somatization
somato-
somatomedin
somatopleure
somatosensory
somatostatin
somatotrophin
somatotype
sombre
sombrero
some
-some
1
-some
2
-some
3
some day
somebody