estrogen
雌性激素,雌激素,孕激素,雌性荷尔蒙
Definitions
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Biochemistry.
- : any of several major female sex hormones produced primarily by the ovarian follicles of female mammals, capable of inducing estrus, developing and maintaining secondary female sex characteristics, and preparing the uterus for the reception of a fertilized egg: used, especially in synthetic form, as a component of oral contraceptives, in certain cancer treatments, and in other therapies.
Examples
All of this is to say that having slightly elevated estrogen levels isn’t necessarily a cause for concern regardless of your sex or gender—hormone levels change over the course of your lifetime.
You’ll find plenty of articles on “soy’s negative effects” asking whether soy increases estrogen in males.
Officially, menopause is caused by the natural decline of estrogen, and it’s diagnosed after 12 consecutive months without a menstrual cycle.
Medications that reduce the effect of estrogen can also help.
The estrogen theory for height differences isn’t new, but few human evolutionary biologists have given it much attention.
In fact, the estrogen that they employed did worse than castrate the subject—it could act as a cerebral depressant.
All 10 girls were in every single day, so there was a lot of estrogen.
It has an enormous dose of estrogen in it, leading to many voluptuous prisoners in New York state prisons.
Orange Is the New Black returns to Netflix with a wildly addictive potion of darkness, estrogen, and one-liners.
Not only that, but fat cells may themselves produce estrogen and other hormones.