parahormone
Meanings
noun
- A substance that is a product of ordinary metabolism and not produced for a specific purpose, but acts like a hormone in modifying the activity of some distant organ, as in the case of carbon dioxide acting on the respiratory centre.
Word forms
Etymology
From para- + hormone.
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