somatotroph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of a set of cells, in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, that produces the growth hormone somatotropin.

Word forms

somatotroph somatotrophs

Etymology

From somato- + -troph.

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