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Example sentences for "hormone"

Lexicographically close words:
horizons; horizontal; horizontality; horizontally; horizontals; hormones; horn; hornbeam; hornbill; hornbills
  1. The cut or ringed area is treated with a hormone powder, wrapped in sphagnum moss and covered with a wrapping of polyethelene.

  2. If we are to look for unit factors at all in endocrine heredity, we must look more deeply into constitution, and measure the hormone potentials and their mobilization or suppression.

  3. So it contrasts with the hormone of the minute parathyroids placed so closely to it, a minimum dose of which is absolutely a prerequisite for continued life.

  4. Hormone is employed a good deal in the literature of the subject.

  5. While the ovary, stimulated by the thyroid and the adrenal medulla, is the chief determinant of the sex instinct, to the posterior pituitary must be credited the chief hormone of the maternal instinct.

  6. Whether one or the other sex tendency will dominate depends upon the quantity of sex hormone divergence from the ideal normal.

  7. The effect of the hormone system upon the vegetative apparatus may create the more obscure insanities and quasi-insanities.

  8. The hormone provoking this sex reflex is present in the testes only during the breeding season.

  9. The infections of childhood, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and above all mumps, may so damage the hormone system that an inversion of sex type follows.

  10. An increased or decreased appropriation by them of the hormone controlling their function.

  11. Others will show an intense curiosity spontaneously, a curiosity which perhaps may be explained as a larval precocity, dependent upon the minimum of sex hormone production by the gonads.

  12. Starling and Miss Lane-Claypon concluded from their experiments on rabbits that the hormone originated in the foetuses themselves within the pregnant uterus.

  13. These products would act as a hormone on the gametocytes, stimulating the factors which in the next generation would control the development of the frontal bone and adjacent tissues.

  14. Biedl's conclusion is that the periodic development and disintegration of the uterine mucous membrane in the menstrual cycle is due to the hormone of the interstitial cells of the ovary.

  15. At the same time it is probable that the age at which the inherited development takes place tends to become earlier in later generations, to occur in fact as soon as the necessary hormone medium is present.

  16. This is not surprising in view of the fact that hitherto my only publications on the hormone theory have been a paper in a German periodical and a chapter in an elementary text-book.

  17. The hormone theory only postulates such influence from hormones issuing from tissues modified by external stimuli.

  18. Directly or indirectly, the lack of this hormone stimulates molt and, probably enzyme action, or the lack of it, causes the melanoblasts of the cells in the hair follicle to be without pigment.

  19. Effects of gonadotropic hormone on the pelage of white winter long-tailed weasels; abstract.

  20. Now, you come along with hormone sprays and take half or two-thirds of the young fruits off soon after the trees blossom and throw them into regular production.

  21. This hormone also stimulates the body to heal wounds and burns, repair broken bones, generally replace any tissues that have been destroyed and, growth hormone stimulates the immune response.

  22. Unfortunately, growth hormone cannot at this time be inexpensively synthesized and is still far too costly to be used therapeutically except to prevent dwarfism.

  23. One body function that deteriorates during the aging process is the production of growth hormone so the effects of growth hormone have been studied.

  24. The body only produces growth hormone at certain times and only when certain nutrients are present in the blood.

  25. However, any technique that encourages a body to produce more of this hormone would be of great interest to life extensionists.

  26. Growth hormone might make a wonderful life-extension supplement; on it a middle-aged person might readily maintain the muscle tone of youth while slowing aging in general.

  27. Growth hormone also maintains muscle tone and its presence generally slows the aging process.

  28. Pottenger earned his daily bread performing a rather simple task, assaying the potency of adrenal hormone extracts.

  29. This hormone is the result of the action of hydrochloric acid upon some substance in the intestinal wall.

  30. The hormone should not therefore be looked on as the only active agent of opotherapy and, while its action is important, it need not necessarily be preponderant.

  31. The serum contains the internal secretions in hormone form.

  32. You mean to force it out of me and start producing the Y Hormone yourself!

  33. It's the only way to make certain that the formula for the Y Hormone will never be used again.

  34. But my experiments showed conclusively that the Y Hormone has no deleterious effect upon intelligence.

  35. Peccary's sample of the Y Hormone from Humanac's analyzer and had thoroughly cleansed the computer of any last traces of it.

  36. But the Y Hormone bears an essential relationship to the whole.

  37. I'll remind you that your picture was on the classroom wall and that the sixth rule read by that boy indicated that he was supposed to start using your hormone when he reached the age of twenty-one.

  38. But because he'd started taking the hormone only recently, he was as yet unable to say positively that it was responsible for the splendid health he was enjoying.

  39. His impatience to know the sociological consequences of the hormone had made him bring a sample of it to Staghorn.

  40. I refuse to believe that my Y Hormone will bring about the consequences that machine is predicting!

  41. What's more, I'm not going to touch your Y Hormone even if you do put it on the market.

  42. Ten years after your hormone went on the market the world had an extra five billion people.

  43. And unless that machine can provide a full and satisfactory explanation as to why my Y Hormone will bring about the conditions depicted on that screen, I see no reason to keep the hormone off the market.

  44. I simply don't believe my hormone can be responsible!

  45. Your hormone can't keep people from starving, either, and it was a shock from which those who survived never recovered.

  46. Hence, it seems probable that these changes in plants which are maturing naturally may be hastened by the hormone action of the esters and similar bodies which are developed in largest quantities at that stage.

  47. Persons whose thyroid glands are relatively inactive are mentally sluggish; the less active the gland is, the more marked is this sluggishness, and in case of practically complete absence of the hormone the condition amounts to idiocy.

  48. The successful treatment of this condition depends on the removal by surgery of enough of the thyroid gland to reduce the outpouring of the hormone to the normal amount.

  49. This gland is now known to manufacture and pour out into the blood a hormone which is a regulator of metabolism.

  50. It is controlled by a ductlesss gland which secretes the hormone egerin, beginning at puberty; this begins the need cycle, and increases the warrior's endurance and healing speed beyond even the Sandeman norm.

  51. Cyclical is involuntary, caused by the normal buildup of egerin, since that hormone cannot be metabolized alone.

  52. This causes the thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland in the lower part of the neck, to produce an excess of the thyroid hormone thyroxine.

  53. Excess hormone raises the calcium level too high, and psychotic-like behavior can result.

  54. Too little hormone lowers the calcium level to the point that a person may behave like an alcoholic.

  55. Malcolm Carruthers discovered that individuals who exercise vigorously produce increased levels of the hormone epinephrine, which counteracts depression.

  56. Apparently, strong exercise for even ten minutes doubles the normal level of epinephrine; the effects of the heightened level of the hormone can be fairly long-lasting.

  57. We can't extract the complete hormone spectrum from blood--the basic factors she must have to utilize the rest just don't exist there.

  58. It would leave again and come back at decreasing intervals unless or until the hormone deficiency was corrected.

  59. I'm having Jeriann work solely on synthesizing those hormone fractions we can't extract from blood.

  60. He claims equally good results from thyroxin, the hormone of the thyroid gland, from desiccated thyroid and from tethelin (pituitary).

  61. The action is regarded as coming about in an indirect manner, being accomplished through the hormone action of the vitamines on one or more glands of internal secretion.

  62. So he went back to its incubator and cut off the hormone flow into its compartment.

  63. A neutroid would be born a female if they didn't give it suppressive doses of male hormone prenatally.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hormone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjuvant; bile; endocrine; gall; hormone; mucus; rheum; semen; sperm; tear; vitamin